[haiku-development] Re: Set a custom icon for a BAlert
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:37:48 -0400
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:19 PM, pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:35:35AM -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
>> So to bring this back to the discussion at hand, showing the version
>> of applications (at least some of the "major ones") in about boxes is
>> a viable reason to have at least some individual about boxes, since
>> IMO the version of these applications should not necessarily be tied
>> to Haiku's version.
>
> Wait, isn't that the work of the package manager app ?
I see Ryan's point, you may want to include a separate version number
for an app than
the Haiku release, especially for major apps. Think Windows 8 and IE 10, etc.
> Back on topic: rather than allowing any icon in BAlerts, I'd keep them
> to the standard ones, and add the icon in the dedicated about box API,
> which happens to look like (and inherit from) BAlert right now, but
> could be changed to something else and get a different look. I'd make
> the icon a lot bigger, something like 128x128 or even more.
So what I've done is convert BAboutWindow into a regular BWindow. The
About window features the grey stripe on the left side, the
application icon as well as the application name, version number, and
copyright information. I like the idea of making the icon 128x128.
Below that is a read-only BTextView containing, all optionally, a
short application description, authors, special thanks, version
history, and extra information.
System apps can fill out the top section only, omitting the bottom
BTextView completely. This makes for a very simple about box and makes
localization easy. Third party apps can then fill out the extra pieces
they want to include and the result will be nicely formatted for them.
Of course, 3rd party apps are also free to create their own about
boxes if they wish, this is merely a convenience.
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