[haiku-development] Re: Set a custom icon for a BAlert
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:45:42 +0200
Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 02.08.2012 18:55, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe an About dialog isn't that useless after all...
> >
> > Certainly at least to indicate what is a Haiku project provided
> > application (I'm not using the word "included" since as you say things
> > get muddled with package management.) Also it may make sense to have
> > individual version numbers for applications since they may be updated
> > independently in the future. I could certainly see WebPositive, maybe
> > ShowImage, the Debugger and probably more being like this.
>
> I don't see why they would need to be released independently. If you
> want bleeding edge, you'd probably just say to, and differentiate your
> Haiku version by revision number (ie. that would be the unstable channel).
>
> If we backport things into an older release branch, we would still need
> to do a point release of some sorts to get it out of the door (including
> new test cycle, etc.).
>
> > Also we could consider adding a "Add Bug For This Application" button
> > in the about boxes which opens the Haiku bug tracker with a new ticket
> > with that application preset as the Component (assuming Trac supports
> > that.)
>
> Sure, that would be a reason to have about dialogs.
So there would be an about dialog with exactly one button for the bug report?
Why not have a bug report menu item instead?
> Just in case we
> decide to get them back one day, we should still omit the authors from
> the dialog then. In any case, I think package management is indeed a
> good argument for getting them back.
Um, didn't you explain above why package management doesn't change anything in
this respect?
CU, Ingo
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