[haiku-development] Re: Removing About dialogs altogether

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 05.12.2011 18:03, Humdinger wrote:
> > I don't think this is a sort of backwards-compatibility that's worth
> > sticking to. Can anyone come up with an app actually calling another
> > apps's replicant's About alert? I don't. Frankly, I'm hard pressed to
> > come up with any app relying on other replicants...
> 
> BeHappy would be a candidate, but that wasn't I meant. Replicants could 
> do anything when they receive a B_ABOUT_REQUESTED - ie. they could even 
> open a configuration dialog. This kind of functionality would no longer 
> be accessible if you remove the menu item.
> It's only a theoretical problem, and we could still replace it with the 
> title suggested by Rimas, and see if we'll receive a bug report about 
> this or not :-)

Wouldn't making this opt-out help (requiring some extension of the API)? This 
way all replicants bundled with Haiku could disable it.

CU, Ingo

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