Re: [gnome-love] New GnomeGoal

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 14:23 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le lundi 07 mai 2007, à 22:20 +0200, Luis Menina a écrit :
> > That's what I think too. Moreover, migration to GTK 2.10 can give great 
> > GNOME Goals. I did for Ekiga the GnomeAbout -> GtkAboutDialog and the 
> > EggStatusIcon -> GtkStatusIcon which give some clearly defined goals. It 
> > helps to give some desktop-wide consistency, and removes the need for 
> > copied/pasted implementations of these (which lowers the memory footprint).
> >
> > So, unless someone disagrees, the next goal will be:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog
>
> One issue I have with this goal is the license text: it's really not
> good to have to paste it everywhere while GTK+ can have the GPL only
> once. Also, should the license be translated or not?

I suggest going forward with the goal, but changing it to say nothing
about the license field, or better, explicitly say to not change the
license field at all for the time being, until the Gtk+ feature is added
and we'll run another goal to just update the license field then.


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