OK, I'll give this one a try for starters: basically adding the new-style Gnome HIG-compliant about dialog box, and reading the AUTHORS file in rather than having them hard-coded in. I'll write in a #ifdef GNOME as mentioned in the bug-report to check for non-Gnome-builds, and leave in the old GTK code. Most of the code is in the bug report anyway, but will check, tidy up, and re-submit the patch as an attachment, which appears not to have happened originally :)
OK, attached is a patch to resolve bug #85726 --- it uses the new-style GNOME about dialog box when appropriate. The code is mostly stolen from that bug report but I've made some changes to robustify and tidy it. In particular, there is only one hard-coded list of authors rather than two as in the bug report. Bug #85726 can now be closed I think, but I plan to file another one (which I will follow up on) to read in the authors from the AUTHORS file. I think the patch is properly formed but this is my first time at doing this so please let me know if I've got it wrong. I've added a Changelog entry and did: cvs -z3 diff -N 2>/tmp/diff.log |gzip >/tmp/some.patch.gz as per http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-February/msg00126.html If someone could try applying it (and close #85726 if it works OK for them) I'd very grateful. Regards, Andrew. -- Andrew Ferrier email: andrew junk new-destiny co uk web: http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/
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