Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 22:46:44 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> Hello all.
> 
> As you may know, we ship a launcher called "Release Notes" in our
> default install.
> During the F18 Launcher Purge[1] Allan asked the docs team to remove
> it from the default install, but his request was rejected[2].
> 
> But now we have guidelines[3], and the guidelines state:
> * An "app" is an application as defined by the GNOME 3 HIG[4]
> * An app launcher SHOULD Launch software that is an actual app - see
> the GNOME 3 HIG for the exact definition
> 
> And the release notes, well, are not an app (per the definition in the
> GNOME 3 HIG).
> 
> Moreover, I don't really think users expect to find release notes
> inside the OS itself - no other OS does that.
> 
> We can link to the release notes in our download page, our help page
> on the website (which will be linked from start.fpo once I finish
> implementing the new designs we got), and a bookmark in Firefox
> (pointing to a local copy of the release notes) - so the release notes
> won't exactly be invisible or inaccessible.

Or it could simply be in Software, which is where software is.


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