Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32: GPL license file

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:55:35 -0800
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:41:10AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> I'll have to look at what GNOME does; the GNOME HIG says that "About"
> under "Help"
> 
> 	Opens the About dialog for the application.  Use the standard
> 	dialog provided by the GNOME libraries, which contains the name
> 	and version number of the application, a short description of
> 	the application's functionality, author contact details,
> 	copyright message and a pointer to the licence under which the
> 	application is made available.
> 
> but I don't know whether it gives that all in one big window or in a
> tabbed window

At least with GNOME 1.4, there doesn't seem to be all that stuff in the
About dialog.  That might be a GNOME 2.x-ism; I don't currently have any
machines with GNOME 2.x, and haven't seen any screenshots of typical
GNOME 2.x About dialogs.