[Chandler-dev] Re: [Bug 6003] About box version number subtitution not i18n compliant

[Brian Kirsch]

 >>> Is that OK if I finish Bug 4680 (renaming SplashScreen.py to 
AboutBox.py) before you do that?

Sure

Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
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Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is that OK if I finish Bug 4680 (renaming SplashScreen.py to 
> AboutBox.py) before you do that?
>
> Also on the About box, that is one element of "branding". We need to 
> pounder that as well before moving to Python code in lieu of html.
>
> Also moving this to the public dev list.
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe
>
> Brian Kirsch wrote:
>
>> Hi Mimi,
>> In looking at the about dialog box. It is my recommendation that we 
>> not have it as a static html file on disk.
>>
>> Doing so makes maintaining localizations more difficult and the 
>> simple nature of what is displayed better
>> lends itself to a WxPython dialog.
>>
>> If we have 10 translations we would have to 10 about.html files in 
>> addition to the Chandler gettext localization po files.
>>
>> I don't think this makes sense long term unless the about dialog is 
>> going to have a complex layout.
>>
>> Having external about.html files means we have to worry about 
>> character encodings and errors in the html.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>> Brian Kirsch -  Cosmo Developer / Chandler Internationalization Engineer
>> Open Source Applications Foundation
>> 543 Howard St. 5th Floor
>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>> http://www.osafoundation.org
>>
>>
>>
>> bug-comment at osafoundation.org wrote:
>>
>>> http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6003
>>>
>>>
>>> pbossut at osafoundation.org changed:
>>>
>>>           What    |Removed                     |Added
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>>   Attachment #2033|                            
>>> |review?(bkirsch at osafoundatio
>>>               Flag|                            |n.org)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------- Comment #1 from pbossut at osafoundation.org  2006-06-06 14:48 
>>> PST -------
>>> Created an attachment (id=2033)
>>> --> 
>>> (http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=2033&action=view)
>>> Changes to Main.py and About.html
>>>
>>> Note that the new code requires about.html to be modified also 
>>> (actually
>>> simplified).
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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