Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Inconsistency in About Ethereal menu item vs the dialog box l

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:16:24 -0700
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:14:16PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> A few days ago I sent out email pointing out that the label on the dialog 
> box that is displayed when a user clicks on the About Ethereal menu item 
> is inconsistent in that it shows up as Ethereal: Information rather than 
> About Ethereal.
> 
> Having looked at this some further, it seems that the problem is caused by 
> the simple_dialog function not taking a label for the dialog box that is 
> displayed.
> 
> Would people be annoyed if I added a label parameter to simple_dialog?

I wouldn't be.

> Of course, this raises the question of what should be done with WARNING or 
> CRIT or INFO dialog boxes ...

Well, they should probably do similar things to other GUIs, although,
unfortunately, I'm currently running FreeBSD/KDE 1.x, and don't have my
other machines/OSes booted so I can't check that.

Should the About dialog have the warning/error/information icon?