[gnome-love] GNOME Goal: Update About Dialogs

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

Hi everyone,

This a request for comments for the GNOME Goals project, which aims at 
improving desktop consistency, and helping newcommers to get involved in 
the GNOME community.

We're trying to launch a new GNOME Goal to migrate the about boxes to 
the GtkAboutBox API that came way back (in GTK 2.6). You can find the 
proposal here:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog

There are however for the moment a few blocking problems.

1. The way the license is handled
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There is an enhancement request for usual licences support in 
GtkAboutDialog: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336225

We have 3 choices:
* Copy/paste the license text in each project in the "license" property
* Wait until the API for usual licenses is implemented and use the 
"license-name" property (volunteers ?)
* Use a copy/pasted version, then launch a new Goal when the API is 
ready (overkill IMHO).

2. The text to use for the website URL
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If an usability guru reads that, should we use as text for the link to 
the application's project:
* the rough URL of the project,
* or a text like "XYApp Web Site" ?

Please add your comment in replying to this mail, or in the "Comments" 
section of this GNOME Goal proposal at
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog

Thank you

Luis Menina