Subject: Re: two new about menu items (almost)
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 13:26:31 CDT
Quoting Alan <horkana@tcd.ie>:
>
> > I'll take these and handle them appropriately. The "About Gnu" will
> probably go
>
> if you are not just shortening that for convience then please explain.
> The lable was intended to promote "Free Software" (as Mike Wanted i
> think) but i labelled it "Gnu Free Software" to try and avoid and
> compensate for already the inherent ambiguities of the English language
I was just shortening it for convenience in typing my email response to you. I
want to mention both GNU and Free Software in this menu item.
> > in somewhere, and "About Gnome Office" will go in #ifdef HAVE_GNOME
>
> Why?
> Gnome user are the people most likely to already know what Gnome Office
> is. Are we not trying to Advertise and Market other great open source
> software even if its not (yet) available for your platform of choice?
>
> I probably use windows more often than i use *nix but i still think the
> link to Gnome Office should be in All Platforms.
AbiWord is part of Gnome Office. However, most people on non-gnome platforms
couldn't care about gnome office, and the menu item would not be appreciated. I
don't see the need for this advertizing blurb on any build except for the Gnome
one. If the rest of Gnome Office starts to run on Win32, Be, MacOS, or QNX, then
I guess that my opinion might change. Also, I don't believe that everyone
running Gnome will know what Gnome Office is, or they might want an easy link to
go see the progress of the project (which is about to get a boost from me
shortly...)
Dom
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