Re: App menu Help/About consistency

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 19:13 -0008, Jim Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 14:56 +0002, Yosef Or Boczko wrote: 
> >         Also, the about dialog is the place to five credit to the
> >         developers
> >         and to the translators (ans also to the designers).
> > By that token, we should probably include everyone that works on
> > every bit of technology that the application relies on. That's just
> > not feasible.
>
> You're taking an exaggerated position, claiming it's obviously
> overkill, and then tossing out the entire argument.

Clearly :)

> I would think the GNOME designers would want the core apps to be
> models for other application developers.  It seems strange to me that
> the core apps would then carve out exceptions for themselves.

I don't think that core apps should be built like external ones,
otherwise there'd be no point in making them core.

On top of my head, the differences are:
- they are shipped with the OS, not separately
- they use generic names, not branded ones
- they integrated with the OS in ways that stand-alone apps might not be
able to (I'm thinking of every "sharing" app we use in the Sharing
panel)
- they follow the GNOME release process

So I don't think the "core apps are models to third-party apps" argument
works.