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Please check the status of this specification in Launchpad before editing it. If it is Approved, contact the Assignee or another knowledgeable person before making changes.

Summary

Redesign the current "About Ubuntu" menu option such that it contains useful information such as the Ubuntu derivative name, version number, basic information about the system. This should be visually attractive, and could be an ideal place for easter eggs.

Release Note

This section should include a paragraph describing the end-user impact of this change. It is meant to be included in the release notes of the first release in which it is implemented. (Not all of these will actually be included in the release notes, at the release manager's discretion; but writing them is a useful exercise.)

It is mandatory.

Rationale

An about dialog is needed to describe the version of Ubuntu being used or derivatives. It should also contain basic information on the user's machine

Use Cases

Someone asks you:

  • What version of Ubuntu are you running?
  • What kind of computer do you have? (not in this order)
    • Hard drive size (where '/' is)
    • Graphics card
    • Network card
    • CPU
    • RAM
  • Version of GNOME

Want to get more information on Ubuntu

Assumptions

Design

Notes:

  • Remove "About Ubuntu" and "About GNOME" -- replace with "About Your Computer"

Implementation

Firstly, About Your Computer is a shell script that determines if you are running Gnome or KDE, and then picks the relevant

This section should describe a plan of action (the "how") to implement the changes discussed. Could include subsections like:

UI Changes

  • New Dialog
    • Grabs icon from icon them "start-here"
    • Looks for system information from a file set by meta packages
    • Has dragable text to e-mail/IRC/forum/etc

Code Changes

Code changes should include an overview of what needs to change, and in some cases even the specific details.

Migration

Include:

  • data migration, if any
  • redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
  • how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

It's important that we are able to test new features, and demonstrate them to users. Use this section to describe a short plan that anybody can follow that demonstrates the feature is working. This can then be used during CD testing, and to show off after release.

This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.

Outstanding Issues

This should highlight any issues that should be addressed in further specifications, and not problems with the specification itself; since any specification with problems cannot be approved.

How to support derivatives

* How to do about with suporting Kubuntu and Edubuntu and.... * Issues of toolkit? * Looking at meta-packages? * Look at environmental variables? ** Done by Compiz (GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID) -- GNOME vs. KDE (the functions in xdg-utils show how to do this reliably) * Debian alternatives? * Seperate packages for each about screen? ** Too many small packages ** Can all the icons live in one package? * Can you use the icon theme?

What's wrong with the existing design?

What do we want in the new dialog?

BoF agenda and discussion

Use this section to take notes during the BoF; if you keep it in the approved spec, use it for summarising what was discussed and note any options that were rejected.

See:

CategorySpec

DesktopTeam/Specs/AboutThisComputer (last edited 2012-09-04 11:08:23 by mpt)