'About Ubuntu' to be beautified....

[Matthew East]

copying in the documentation team mailing list

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 09:55 +0200, Jane Weideman wrote:
> Hi Jeff^2 and Matthew,
> 
> Please could you read the trailing e-mail and let me know if you guys
> have any way of improving the "About Ubuntu' page. The sabdfl would like
> it to look 'more professional'....
> 
> We were investigating getting an outside company to look at it, but
> there is not enough time, and there is not a clear brief, so it was not
> easy to achieve with ppl outside of the community.

You need to distinguish here whether you want to improve the About
Ubuntu page as viewed as the firefox home page, or the About Ubuntu page
as opened from the System menu bar.

Obviously we can work on the former because it is in html, and the css
can be changed. 

I don't see any way we can improve the latter for Breezy, as it opens in
Yelp and this is constrained as Mark says in his email. One thing that
could be done is that screenshots could be added. Perhaps a nice idea
for the future (Dapper?) would be to investigate using a similar
technique to that used by the About Gnome page. I know nothing about
this program but I assume that Jeff (w) can help you with that.

Matt
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