Hi, Why do we need it at all? We could have a single place with all the about things, in a Details panel in Switchboard for instance. We don't need it, it doesn't bring anything to the user, and I doubt that anyone is reading it.
Lucas Le mardi 29 mai 2012 à 19:32 +0200, Andrea Basso a écrit : > Hi, > > I agree, it's something we need to solve, it's pointless and quite ugly to > have the appmenu only for the About item. > > On the other hand I'm not sure the quicklist is the most suited place. I > don't know, the quicklist is to save time, to launch the app in a > different way, not really to interact with it. Midori does have a "New > Tab" item in quicklist, but I for one have never used it, and I think > almost everyone else has never did. Once an app is started and running, > you're not supposed and you don't think it's possible to interact with it > via the quicklist. > > I don't really know how to integrate it into eOS, but I feel the best way > to proceed is to have an external menu, something a la Gnome Shell. It > would be a place where the user can always find the about dialog, it > solves problem with apps that don't need a toolbar and increases > compatibility a lot (with Gnome apps and since it's external we could even > have normal gtk apps use it, like Ubuntu does with the global menu). > > Regards, > Andrea Basso > > On Tue, 29 May 2012 18:56:55 +0200, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> > wrote: > > > Hey Guys, > > > > When we first did the AppMenu, I think we felt that having only a single > > menu for an app was being extremely optimistic about it's design. But it > > seems that even so, some of the apps that have been built for elementary > > (Switchboard, Eidete, etc) are so contextual and awesome that they don't > > need an AppMenu at all except for a single item: About. > > > > What I'd like to propose is moving "About" into a quicklist item. I think > > this would make sense because it's About the App not just the current > > Window, and it would give us a consistent place to put this item (that > > I'm > > pretty sure we all want for all of our apps) without requiring > > yet-another-otherwise-useless-piece-of-UI. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Daniel Foré > > > > elementaryos.org > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp