Closed Bug 502228 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Edit about: page

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(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

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VERIFIED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: viper550, Assigned: tdowner)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 We have the about: page, and the Help>About link leads to a completely different dialog. If anything, we should keep just the About: page. And then, the about page itself, should be structured a bit differently, saying something like: [Logo] Version 3.5. Built [built date] [user agent] Mozilla Firefox is (link)free and open software(/link) from the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and its many (LINK)contributors(/LINK). See the (link)build configuration(/link) used for this version. Read the (link)licensing information(/LINK) for this product and its components Firefox® is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation, use of these marks are regulated by the (link)Mozilla trademark guidelines(/link) --- The "regular" about box doesn't make our openness clear enough, this would make it a bit more clear what is going on here. Reproducible: Always
The about: page is not found easily by most people. The majority of users do not know about the whole about: thing (about:crashes, about:, about:mozilla, etc.). While we could do like Seamonkey, and clicking on About go to the About page, it is a very clunky way of doing it, while the About dialog is a lightweight way to show what version you are running, which is all that is needed. Your issue about restructuring the about: page could be valid though.
Summary: Why do we have two about boxes? → Edit about: page
Whiteboard: wontfix?
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Well, I think reformatting the about page could make some sense, so taking for now.
Assignee: nobody → tyler.downer
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Whiteboard: wontfix?
Attached patch Patch v1Splinter Review
I think this makes it a little better. See what benjamin thinks.
Attachment #387055 - Flags: review?(benjamin)
Comment on attachment 387055 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 Axel should review l10n impact here, and gerv should do UI review. I'm not convinced we need this on the about: page since that's mainly a licensing information page. I will note that splitting the sentence up the way you've done it is probably not kosher for l10n, but I don't know the "right way" to do it.
Attachment #387055 - Flags: ui-review?(gerv)
Attachment #387055 - Flags: review?(l10n)
Attachment #387055 - Flags: review?(benjamin)
Comment on attachment 387055 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 That page is in a sad state from an l10n perspective. It has a load of hardcoded spaces, and this patch adds more. Not that I think it's worth the hassle of fixing that. The patch will break, as about.open.afterLink isn't defined. "Mozilla" should probably not be hard-coded, at least it's not in about:rights. The change to about.license.afterLink is rather unmotivated, so its unclear if it'd warrant an entity name change or not. I personally don't think this change is necessary, but this is Gerv's call.
Attachment #387055 - Flags: review?(l10n) → review-
Comment on attachment 387055 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 Thank you very much, but I don't think this is quite the right way to go. We need to sort out the relationship between about:, about:rights and about:licence, but until we do, let's let sleeping dogs lie. Gerv
Attachment #387055 - Flags: ui-review?(gerv) → ui-review-
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
sounds cool.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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