Re: System Information vs gnome-about

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Vincent Untz wrote:

> > I see that gnome-about got removed from gnome-desktop, with the message
> > that it should be replaced with the system information panel (see
> > http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/SystemInformation)
> > 
> > Is this system information panel available somewhere? Is someone working
> > on it? If no, I think it's weird to remove gnome-about before we get a
> > replacement... Especially as we could easily tweak gnome-about to
> > implement the proposed design.
> 
> Okay, I see it's in gnome-control-center now (just appeared in the last
> release), but with static data.
> 
> We also lost gnome-version.xml, which I think was used by other modules
> (at least bug-buddy and gnome-system-monitor). I think we still need to
> have one file telling the exact version of GNOME.

There's also the list of contributors (well, foundation members), in
my opinion it is important to keep it; a reason is that it's
satisfying for many people to get their names scrolling on every GNOME
desktops, some sense of accomplishment.

And GNOME is made of people.


Cheers,
        Frederic