GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346767
better usability & data availability
Last modified: 2011-08-28 22:31:23 UTC
Please allow a different way (or replace existing one) of how text is displayed. If one wants to see all GNOME description and contributors at once it's not possible. Copy-paste also doesn't work. Maybe on a click change the canvas to a tabbed notebook, with two tabs (About GNOME, Contributors) and plain text? Thanks
Would you say this is a duplicate of bug 125313?
(In reply to comment #0) > Please allow a different way (or replace existing one) of how text is > displayed. > > If one wants to see all GNOME description and contributors at once it's not > possible. Copy-paste also doesn't work. Only half a duplicate of bug 125313, it only addess the secondary "also" problem of copy and paste. I was thinking Gnome About should have a "Credits" button like the standard GtkAbout to show a non-animated list of contributors. Perhaps gnome-about could even cleanly reuse code from the standard GtkAbout? (I was also thinking what would it take to make the links actually look more like links and correctly inherit the standard system colours but I should probably file a seperate request for that.)
(In reply to comment #2) > I was also thinking what would it take to make the links actually look more > like links and correctly inherit the standard system colours but I should > probably file a seperate request for that. 0) Not sure what the issue was in 2.14, but at least in 2.22 and 2.24 they actually look like links (although they don't change colour once clicked). Maybe a theme issue? 1) It would also be nice if the links gave some hint that they are (launching a browser and) taking the user to a website (Nautilus at least shows a tooltip with its webaddress if you hover over its link in the about dialog; although there the link for some reason is displayed on top of a button). 2) Note how the first link is "About Gnome", which give the sequence: "About GNOME" -> "About the GNOME Desktop" -> "About GNOME" -> "http://www.gnome.org/about/" (biggest header "What is GNOME?"). 3) Wouldn't just one link do?
(In reply to comment #2) > I was thinking Gnome About should have a "Credits" button like the standard > GtkAbout to show a non-animated list of contributors. Perhaps gnome-about > could even cleanly reuse code from the standard GtkAbout? Couldn't the whole gnome-about dialog just as well look like an ordinary GtkAbout? The scrolling of text and names is neither very useful nor impressive, the texts scrolling by are rather uninteresting, nobody will have the patience to watch all names scroll by, etc. The dialog could then just be something like: [FOOT ICON] GNOME $NUMBER One line description Version: $VERSION, Distributor: etc. <Link to site> [ Credits] [ Close ] (Would also fix bugs #125293 and #523966 and probably most of the rest.)
gnome-about has been removed in GNOME 3