Re: Menu/String changes

sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:

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> Dom Lachowicz wrote:
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>>> 1) Remove "Autotext" completely.
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>> Yes, please. Unless you can actually make it useful.
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> Agreed.

Considering it's just text, and not really auto, consider this my
redundant vote to remove it.

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>>> 2) Changes to "Help" menu
>>>
>>> Help
>>> Help Contents
>>> Help Introduction
>>> Search for Help
>>> Check Version
>>> Report a Bug
>>> -----------------
>>> About GNOME Office
>>> About AbiWord
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>> Please remove "check version". It hasn't worked for
>> quite some time, and we don't update that page
>> frequently.
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> Please do not remove check version. Uwog fixed it a while ago and it
> works fine without the feature information it used to contain; it's
> also consistently one of the more checked pages on abisource.com
> according to webalizer.
>
I also made a small fix a while back so that CVS HEAD versions (like
what KJD used to build) and other "unknown" (unreleased) versions were
handled gracefully. The code is actually quite lucid, so if we wanted
to, for instance, add support for another sort of version information
(like if I or sum1 started adding date info to the versions of our
builds), it's a piece of cake, relatively speaking.

My only suggestion is that it be changed to "Check for Updates", so it
is not confused with the About box, where people go to check to see what
version they have. It also implies increased functionality (it knows if
it has updates!) and reduces the appearance of bloat (why do they have
both a "check version" and "about"?). Sadly I know this is a string change.

Ryan
Received on Mon May 16 23:19:35 2005