2010/11/19 Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Adrien Destugues "Adrien Destugues" <adestugu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... >> Moreover, the About System case is a bit particular, asit has >> a lot of text, includes formatting in various styles and >> hyperlinks, with an API that's not possible to use with >> ReplaceFirst. >> >> I don't see how we can get this app done right. > ... > > I restate my opinion that AboutSystem should be replaced, at least > partially, by a plain HTML document. We have two very capable browsers. > > There is of course merit and value in improving the APIs and the > services available to our devs and translators, but there is no true > value in wrapping the right hand side text of AboutSystem - which is > essentially documentation! - in C++ code, just to have it presentable > in a form and in a place where a subset of people expect to find this > information. > > This document could live anywhere - I usually suggest the desktop - > or even a link to a page on the Haiku website. Sharing this info > on the website might be prudent anyway. > > /Jonas. Or put the info from the right panel in an html document and put a link to it in AboutSystem and have the app just be the system details.