Feature Requests item #1741220, was opened at 2007-06-22 07:37 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by pabs3 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757419&aid=1741220&group_id=144022
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: User interface Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 1 Private: No Submitted By: Alan Horkan (horkana) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Use standard Gtk About dialog Initial Comment: Not really a bug so I file my suggestion here that Synfig would do well to use the standard Gtk About dialog. It may seem trivial but the standard dialog means that little bit less maintenance, that little bit more consistency, it provides a suitable place for a longer list of authors and other contributors such as translators and documentation. The standard Gtk About dialog also encourages good habits such as including a description of what the program is actually "About" namely 2-D Animation. Hope you will consider this minor suggestion and take it as an opportunity to cut out one more bit of custom code and save that little bit of maintenance for the drawing and animation I'm sure the users care most about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3) Date: 2008-02-01 20:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=35028 Originator: NO Just letting you know I'm working on this - using the GTK+ about dialog, like GIMP 2.4 does. I'm almost done too. Also there is a competition for a new splash screen, you might want to participate: http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=165 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Alan Horkan (horkana) Date: 2007-06-23 03:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=402612 Originator: YES First let me say that although the standard about dialog is dull it is deliberately dull and provides useful information. I'd expect a nice big Synfig graphic (or animation even) could be used to liven it up a little without sacrificing the dull but helpful functionality. The first time I used the current about dialog I was left wondering how I was supposed to close it, the eye candy was cripplingly bad in terms of accessibility. Also the dialog doesn't actually tell you what Synfig is _about_ namely Animation. Version information is helpful every once in a a while and contributors always like being about to point out their names to others and say look what I helped make. Faster startup is easier said than done but having a splash screen no matter how sexy isn't really something to strive for. Splash screens only serve to show how slow a program is at loading, and in an ideal world they wouldn't be necessary. In any case it is a very minor issue and would surely come low on the priority list. Might make for a relatively easy trivial task someone might play around as a first step into the Synfig codebase. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Wise (pabs3) Date: 2007-06-22 18:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=35028 Originator: NO A related bug: http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1678554 I personally like the existing dialog, would rather fix the problems with it than replace it with a very unsexy dialog. It is used for the splash screen too, so we would have to add new code to go with the unsexy standard dialog. I'm open to hearing what everyone else thinks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757419&aid=1741220&group_id=144022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
