<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On 3 Jan 2011, at 13:09, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com"><a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 3 Jan 2011, at 02:43, Bernie Innocenti wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 13:22 +1100, James Cameron wrote:<br>
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>> Unfair to timezone challenged. ;-} Alternatively, describe who has to<br>
>> express their view on a consensus decision. It's not clear to me. I<br>
>> never know when a decision here has reached consensus.<br>
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> It seems that now you have to seek approval from either Silbe or Erikos<br>
> to get a patch in.<br>
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> We don't seem to have a UI dictator yet. Not even a committee. So my<br>
> hope is that, at this time, UI patches don't have to go through a<br>
> vaguely-defined Design Team for approval.<br>
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</div>Please, please, for the love of UI things you hold dear, no distracting splash screens, and no extra junk menus for the lawyers. If you want to know about copyright text, just go click View Source.<br></blockquote>
<div><br>First, I don't think the menu on the Frame is particularly overcrowded, although I am loath to overload the Stop button. But more to the point, I think About is much more than extra junk for the lawyers. The license is important as it tells the user that they can modify the code: most users probably don't know that, But it is also a chance to provide additional information about an activity, for example, a link to the activity home page.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not convinced it is worth the effort and data churn.</div><div><br></div><div>Adding one new item to the Activities Frame menus seems fairly minimal, but than now raises a new modal (?) dialogue, will that sit over/under possibly having the control panel, or object chooser, or view source dialogue open at the same time? Can the user switch away to another activity/view with it still open when they return?</div><div><br></div><div>If we provide a web link to an activity home page, how does that get triggered? We make the user copy and paste it? We make it an active link that tries to auto start a new Browse instance? Which one page should it link to, <a href="http://wiki.sl.org">wiki.sl.org</a>, <a href="http://activities.sl.org">activities.sl.org</a>, <a href="http://git.sl.org">git.sl.org</a>, <a href="http://bugs.sl.org">bugs.sl.org</a>?</div><div><br></div><div>Which one authors name gets listed? Most have several intermittant hands on, or none, and often the original author has long since moved on.</div><div><br></div><div>Release date, another field an author has to remember to manually update in the activity.info file?</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry if I've missed some important back channel chat about the need for this, but -1 here from the arguments I've read.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>--Gary</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>-walter<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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