[Dextrose] About Panel

[David Farning]

Cc'ed to dextrose.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Silva [mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org] On Behalf Of
> Sebastian Silva
> Sent: lunes, 18 de abril de 2011 04:57 p.m.
> To: Rafael Ortiz
> Cc: Sascha Silbe; David Farning
> Subject: Re: About Panel
> 
> Hi,
> Both Sasha and I were at yesterday's design meeting time, and informally
> talked with Walter and Gary about this (the meeting was postponed until
> next week).
> It was agreed that a good way forward is probably to incorporate the About
> Dialog with View Source.

Be careful about this -- From an experienced open source developers point for view, the term 'view source' has a specific meaning and implications. For the other 99.99% of the world, 'view source' means "stuff I don't care about."

david

> A second part of the proposal is to make View Source + About Dialog an icon
> in the Activity Pallete (this would requiere activity retrofitting).
> We agreed I'd make a wiki page under Design/ hierarchy and bring up the
> issue once again on the mailing list (with the comments / objections raised at
> the chat) and talk it over at the meeting to have a broader discussion.
> Sasha, let us know what you think the way forward should be to make this
> happen.
> Thanks
> Sebastian
> 
> El 18/04/11 12:49, Rafael Ortiz escribió:
> > Hello Sasha.
> >
> > Sebastian has a working prototype of About Panel for activities, we
> > were thinking with David about the possibility of having this
> > incorporated as part of the core sugar code, in order to avoid the
> > necessity of  modifying all the activities.
> >
> > Is this possible ? can we add it to dx, while upstream makes the
> > decision of approve it ?.
> >
> >  Cheers and thanks.