Re: patch for the "About GNOME" dialog box

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

...but I thought that everyone believed that "Desktop" means "the surface behind 
the icons and panels"? If that is the case then a statement such as GNOME - The 
Official GNU Desktop is limited in meaning, if not confusing. 

Pat 


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> Actually isn't it better if it states something like:
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> 		GNOME
> 	The Official GNU DESKTOP
> 
> Christian
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> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:22, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 17:40, Andy Tai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > The attached is a patch to gnome-about.c in libgnomeui
> > > for your consideration.  It adds a line "GNU Network
> > > Object Model Environment" to the "about GNOME" dialog
> > > box, as well as a hyperlink from the word "GNU" to
> > > www.gnu.org.  I think it is a good idea to show
> > > explicitly what "GNOME" stands for.  Right now no
> > > where is the full name of GNOME displayed and that can
> > > be confusing to the new user.  Tbis additional display
> > > also helps promoting the concept of Free Software.
> > 
> > If the latter is your main goal, an alternative might be to just say
> > something like "The GNU Desktop" instead.
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> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
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