About Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

The "About Fedora" menu item in the GNOME panel seems to be hard coded. 
This is a problem for derivative distributions (including future 
revisions of RHEL). It would be great it was tied to fedora-logos so 
that it can be replaced/ rebranded easily. Thoughts?

Rahul

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  The "About Fedora" menu item in the GNOME panel seems to be hard coded. 
>  This is a problem for derivative distributions (including future 
>  revisions of RHEL). It would be great it was tied to fedora-logos so 
>  that it can be replaced/ rebranded easily. Thoughts? 
Followup:

Replacing fedora-logos and fedora-release with the generic equivalents 
removes the menu item. However what I would like instead is for it say 
"About <foo>" instead.

Rahul

[Steven Garrity]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  The "About Fedora" menu item in the GNOME panel seems to be
> hard coded. 
>  This is a problem for derivative distributions (including future 
>  revisions of RHEL). It would be great it was tied to fedora-logos so 
>  that it can be replaced/ rebranded easily. Thoughts? 
This probably doesn't help with your particular issue here, but I've 
long thought that the About Fedora and About GNOME items should be 
merged into a new window that promotes both GNOME and the distribution.

One fewer menu item can't hurt. It could also possibly be incorporated 
into the About this Computer item.

Steven Garrity

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  The "About Fedora" menu item in the GNOME panel seems to be hard coded. 
>  This is a problem for derivative distributions (including future 
>  revisions of RHEL). It would be great it was tied to fedora-logos so 
>  that it can be replaced/ rebranded easily. Thoughts?
>   
The About Fedora menu item comes from fedora-release-notes, not fedora-logos

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:57 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > The "About Fedora" menu item in the GNOME panel seems to be hard coded. 
>  > This is a problem for derivative distributions (including future 
>  > revisions of RHEL). It would be great it was tied to fedora-logos so 
>  > that it can be replaced/ rebranded easily. Thoughts?
>  > 
>  
>  The About Fedora menu item comes from fedora-release-notes, not fedora-logos 
One problem with "About Fedora" that I noticed recently is that we show
the menuitem, even if yelp is not installed, e.g. on the live cd. We
should fix that.