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. 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.
Bye, Axel.