On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Shaun McCance wrote: > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:41:43 -0500 > From: Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jason Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] "About" menu items galore... > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:31 -0400, Jason Hoover wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 17:53 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > Documentation is owned by someone else. This could stand to be made > > > clearer in some cases and a section on the program copyright could be > > > included in the doucmentations as well. (I wonder how much disk space > > > could be saved by having a standard folder containing all the licensese > > > instead of repeating them in every About Dialog and in every program > > > manual and in some cases ever file of source code.) > > > > That explains that. It'd make a lot of sense, especially considering > > quite a few applets don't even show what license they're written under! > > > > I wonder, why is it called the "Titlepage" (not a real word, by the way) > > and kept at the top, if all it contains is legal and copyright > > information and no actual title? > > 1) It does contain the title, as well as other information. If the > title isn't at the top, there's a bug.
In this case title could refer to title as in ownership (think title deed). > 3) It's pretty standard practice to provide author credits, publisher > information, and copyright notices on the titlepage. The nicer books > will have a true titlepage, set in full splendor by a professionl > typographer, as well as a page listing all the legal mumbo jumbo. > Yelp just sort of condenses everything into one information page. > > 4) Titlepage is a word. Or it is is two words, which I think was the original point being made. There must be lots of really good German programmers because I cannot think why so many developers have a fascination with creating new compound words. Sure it is fine in German and in compound words like website occur in common usage a lot but web site is marginally easier to read and keeps spellcheckers happy so I tend to split the compound words where the spellchecker disagrees with me. - Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
