505304 - "About Seamonkey" page is ugly. Needs redesign.

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

When choosing Help->About Seamonkey, the user is currently presented with a huge almost-full-screen size window with little information and poor design. I think the about dialog would look much better if it were implemented in the same fasion as in Firefox and Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

We deliberately got rid of the dialog because it looked even uglier. Currently Help->About SeaMonkey opens in a new tabbed browser, the same way as in SeaMonkey 1.1. What would help however is to improve the design of the current about: page.

Comment 2

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Well, the dialog doesn't look ugly for me (at least in Firefox and Thunderbird), and I don't think there's enough info in it to mandate a full tab. However, even redesigning the about: page would be something.

Comment 3

[Tobias Fischer]

Is this a Dupe of Bug 88686 (which is filed for Mozilla sometime ago)?

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

> Is this a Dupe of Bug 88686 (which is filed for Mozilla sometime ago)?
No, this is a completely different bug.

Comment 5

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > Is this a Dupe of Bug 88686 (which is filed for Mozilla sometime ago)?
> No, this is a completely different bug.

Actually, I don't think it's *completely* different. Some points in its initial comment are basically the same as in comment #0 here. I think it could be duped against this one since Mozilla Suite no longer exists.

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

Well as far as I can tell, that bug is about moving to a dialog which toolkit apps now use and which we initially inherited when we moved to toolkit. We deliberately moved back to a in-tab implementation of about:. Since we are not going to move back again to a dialog any time this century I think that that is a different bug.

> I think it could be duped
> against this one since Mozilla Suite no longer exists.
So that bug should be closed.

Comment 7

[Wyatt Childers]

Attachment: Mock up of Possible Solution

This is an example of a moch up that could be used to make the About page both cleaner and more modern.

Comment 8

[Wyatt Childers]

Attachment: Correction

Fixed the file sorry bout that

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

Thanks for the suggestions, there are surely good ideas in there, but I don't think it can be done easily in exactly that way. Some of the ideas suggested even match my ideas right now, though! :)

Comment 10

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Robert: the HTML and CSS for that seems pretty easy actually. Making buttons open links in an iframe is pretty easy too.

Comment 11

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Except the autoscroll part. But automatic scrolling of a huge amount of people doesn't really work well anyway.

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

Well, as I said, I don't think we can or will follow this exactly. There are some good ideas in it, though.

Comment 13

[Shawn Thompson]

You could just use the new one from Firefox 4, and then change the info to something like this

"SeamMnkey is an all-in-one internet suite carrying on the spirit and traditions of the origins of the Mozilla Project. The most important of these traditions, is letting you be a part of them through the power of the open source model.  We bring it all together, so you can bring the internet together.

Get involved with the SeaMonkey project"