I liked Wade's suggestion of making it part of help, as it is in other desktops. (help->about) Of course this presumes that the great help debate results in a help button/thingy!! (My challenged GUI nomenclature is one more piece of evidence as to why I don't build GUIs for a living.) <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I suggest a palette attached to a button in the toolbar to show this info, or a modal alert similar to the object chooser. Regards, Tomeu On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 19:52, Carol Farlow Lerche <<a href="mailto:cafl@msbit.com">cafl@msbit.com</a>> wrote: > This brings up an issue I have been thinking about, since the SynPhony > database comprises several "with attribution" components. Would it make > sense to have a common design element that was "about <activity>" or > "credits" that would allow contributions to be acknowledged? Leaving aside > whether it is a license requirement I think it is good practice to show > Sugar users, aka kids, that some people cared enough to build this stuff, > and that if they build stuff they can receive acknowledgement too. > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Simon Schampijer <<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de">simon@schampijer.de</a>> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> we did show a full license in the Control Panel before. The path was >> hard coded to where OLPC had placed the GPL license. What can we do to >> meet the expectations of all the distributions that want to ship sugar? >> >> Thanks for inputs on this, >> Simon >> >> <a href="http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/357" target="_blank">http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/357</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > -- > "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary > depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > </blockquote></div> -- "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair