#26 Maemo 5: About dialogue

[John Veness]

In Maemo 5, the tabs aren't very finger-friendly. I suggest that when going into the About box, the initial information is shown, with an extra button to bring up the Illumination info.

I believe Maemo 5 style guide says that the dialogue title bar should just say About, without the "..."

You could make the links and email addresses clickable.

[Tim Teulings]

Maemo5 itself nevertheless uses tabs at certain places (ApplicationManager) thus I feel it is still allowed in certain situations. I'm neverhteless aware that its usage should be reduced.

In this case I would prefer to use a scrollable pane to place the two tab contents beneeth each other. This however requires a special maemo variant of the about dialog. With is possible but needs to be prepared. More of a problem is, that the about dialog does not fit on screen in portrait mode because libIllumination currently does support displaying text with automatically word wrap :-/

I'm not sure about "...". There are examples in the style guid that places them in the menu items itself. It does make sense to drop the in the title bar, since the "..." suggest "a sub dialog will appear" which does not make sense in a title bar.

[John Veness]

Yes, a scrollable pane sounds a better idea than my one of hiding the Illumination info behind a button which would require two clicks outside the dialogue to get back to the main view.

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[Tim Teulings]

Reverted automatic ticket closing of sourceforge.

[Tim Teulings]

The About dialog now uses a scrollable pane (which does not kick in, because the window is small enough to be displayed without a scrollbar). Email address and url do stillnothing, so I let the ticket stay open.