[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] [AC Update] We are what we do.

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
>>> "About pane" has a psychological effect, it provides recognition and
>>> maybe a sense of ownership for developers and mantainers. I will
>>> propose it on sugar-devel and the HIG once I've implemented a design.
>>> Also it gives a starting point for eventually getting involved in the
>>> development and improvement of each activity.
>>
>> The idea of an About dialog (or menu) already came up on sugar-devel,
>> not long ago. IIRC, Gary Martin was quite opposed to increasing UI
>> clutter with non-essential information.
>>
>> Perhaps we could still define a few meta-tags for activity.info and
>> _not_ display them in the UI at all? They would still be easy to find
>> for developers.
>
> You can show this info in view source mode and in the journal.

Or perhaps in the Detail View in the Journal, where we already show
things like mime-type? And perhaps we could even add the ability to
launch Browse from the Detail View to go to the activity's homepage?

-walter

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