440539 - Make about: pages discoverable, put about:about in the help menu

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Now, it's a Great "easter egg" feature.  
You have to know it exists to be able to use it.
Let's get it out in the open.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Now, it's a Great "easter egg" feature.  
> You have to know it exists to be able to use it.
> Let's get it out in the open.
> 
This isn't a SM 2.0a1 blocker - it is not something that is broken or can't live without.

IMHO its a debug/reporting facility only. It would probably be better to put it on the Debug/QA menu that is supplied by the DebugQA extension.

It is already on about:about (although I know not everyone knows about that) but additionally, if we choose not to activate crashreporter on the majority of builds then for those builds about:crashes will be useless.

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

about:about?  An easter egg of easter eggs?
OK, make about:about discoverable!  

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> [...] if we choose not to activate crashreporter on the majority of
> builds then for those builds about:crashes will be useless.

Note that unlike Talkback, Breakpad is not (or not yet) built as an extension; this means no easy way for users to enable (or disable) it at will. IMHO this also implies that, as long as only Windows builds are distributed as installers, other builds will have Breakpad always installed and will benefit from a "discoverable" about:crashes menu.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > [...] if we choose not to activate crashreporter on the majority of
> > builds then for those builds about:crashes will be useless.
> 
> Note that unlike Talkback, Breakpad is not (or not yet) built as an extension;
> this means no easy way for users to enable (or disable) it at will. IMHO this
> also implies that, as long as only Windows builds are distributed as
> installers, other builds will have Breakpad always installed and will benefit
> from a "discoverable" about:crashes menu.

Even though breakpad is not an extension it is still configurable in some manner (I don't understand exactly after a brief read) to provide less reports, see bug 424960.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

Not blocking anything on such a doubtful "feature".

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

So the grand tradition of SM features being "knowledge locked" is codified.

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Moving to UI Design component