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Evolution should use GtkAboutDialog

Bug #3226 reported by Sitsofe Wheeler on 2005-10-16

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evolution	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #360946
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

The credits button in some About dialogs has a star next to it, but not
in others (contrast Evolution's Help -> About window with Nautilus' Help -> About window). Which is the standard?

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2005-10-16

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → gnome

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-10-16:

Thanks for your bug. Have you tried the "dual" mode? Does it do what you expect? If not could you make a screenshot of the issue or attach an example?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-10-16:

comment on the wrong bug ...

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-04-04:

Thanks for the bug report - what is the problem exactly?

Changed in evolution:
assignee:	gnome → desktop-bugs
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote on 2006-04-08:

In Dapper, Evolution's About window has a single star next to it. (New in dapper) other about Windows have a set of four stars.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote on 2006-04-08:

Setting status back to unconfirmed.

Changed in evolution:
status:	Needs Info → Unconfirmed

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Andy Price (andy-price) wrote on 2006-04-27:

A quick flick through the Gnome HIG[1] tells me that there isn't a standard icon for the credits button. Although, I just looked at about fifteen About boxes from different applications and the majority of them (mainly Gnome-intrinsic ones) used the icon with four stars. Evolution seems to be out of the ordinary in that respect. Of course, other apps have no standard at all and all have their own About boxes e.g. firefox, gaim, xchat etc.

Conclusion: evolution is bucking a Gnome application trend by only having one star on its About box credits button (therefore I'm confirming this bug) but if you consider all of Ubuntu's packaged apps , it's just another different looking About box.

[1] Closest mention I could find - http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#menu-standard-help

Changed in evolution:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-09-06:

I think this bug is more suited to upstream attention.

Evolution still uses a GNOME about dialog instead of a GtkAboutDialog.

There is a proposal to change all GNOME applications to a new layout of about dialogue - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AboutDialog

Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) on 2007-02-10

Changed in evolution:
status:	Unconfirmed → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-02-11

Changed in evolution:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-02-13

Changed in evolution:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-13:

fixed upstream

Changed in evolution:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-02-27:

That upload fixes the bug:

evolution (2.9.92-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
.
   * New upstream version:
     - Fix "Evolution should use GtkAboutDialog" (Ubuntu: #3226)
     - Fix "Random contact gets selected after deleting a contact"
       (Ubuntu: #24924)
     - Fix "evolution message send options error" (Ubuntu: #84834)
   * debian/evolution-common.install:
     - updated list of files to install
   * debian/patches/04_autoreconf.patch:
     - new upstream version