Pivot 2.0 - default about alert

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
for Pivot 2.0, to better identify the version of Pivot (and to have a
little more visibility of Pivot), what do you think to add a default
modal about box (overridden by developers when needed) showing the
Pivot logo, and below something like "Apache Pivot <version>" ?
And maybe even some other data, like JVM memory used / max, etc ...

At least could be linked by some of our demos, at least those with a menu.


Open a ticket in jira, for 2.0 or 2.1, or never ?

Bye,
Sandro

Re: Pivot 2.0 - default about alert

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

I still don't see the value. Any developer can easily see what Pivot version is being used by looking at the JARs. And of course the OS version, JVM version, etc. are also easily obtainable.

OTOH, maybe this would be a good "extra".  :-)  But I don't think it belongs in JIRA.

G

On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Sandro Martini wrote:

>> Agree with Todd
>> (same as last time you brought this up).  ;-)
> sorry, I wasn't remembering to have already proposed this ...
> 
> my idea was not to have a pervasive About box like in Flash (from some
> points of view could be useful, but I agree with both that a-la- Flash
> is annoying), but only to have a default one inside Pivot, and use it
> only when needed, at least in out demos ... usually this type of about
> box are good displaying some details of the platform (Pivot version,
> and OS type and version, and Java version). So for example if someone
> wants to have a feature like this, can use it by default, or override
> what he need, all here ... I hope that explained in this way now could
> be more useful.
> 
> Same as before, or add a ticket (maybe as a wish) for 2.1 or later ?
> 
> Sandro

Re: Pivot 2.0 - default about alert

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

> Agree with Todd
> (same as last time you brought this up).  ;-)
sorry, I wasn't remembering to have already proposed this ...

my idea was not to have a pervasive About box like in Flash (from some
points of view could be useful, but I agree with both that a-la- Flash
is annoying), but only to have a default one inside Pivot, and use it
only when needed, at least in out demos ... usually this type of about
box are good displaying some details of the platform (Pivot version,
and OS type and version, and Java version). So for example if someone
wants to have a feature like this, can use it by default, or override
what he need, all here ... I hope that explained in this way now could
be more useful.

Same as before, or add a ticket (maybe as a wish) for 2.1 or later ?

Sandro

Re: Pivot 2.0 - default about alert

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

Agree with Todd (same as last time you brought this up).  ;-)

On Nov 13, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Todd Volkert wrote:

> -1.  One of the things that bugs me about Flash apps is that they all
> have the damn "About Flash Player" dialog in them.  As a user, I don't
> care what platform was used to code the app - I care about the version
> of the *app* and the company who made it.
> 
> -T
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Sandro Martini
> <sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> for Pivot 2.0, to better identify the version of Pivot (and to have a
>> little more visibility of Pivot), what do you think to add a default
>> modal about box (overridden by developers when needed) showing the
>> Pivot logo, and below something like "Apache Pivot <version>" ?
>> And maybe even some other data, like JVM memory used / max, etc ...
>> 
>> At least could be linked by some of our demos, at least those with a menu.
>> 
>> 
>> Open a ticket in jira, for 2.0 or 2.1, or never ?
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Sandro
>> 

Re: Pivot 2.0 - default about alert

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

-1.  One of the things that bugs me about Flash apps is that they all
have the damn "About Flash Player" dialog in them.  As a user, I don't
care what platform was used to code the app - I care about the version
of the *app* and the company who made it.

-T

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Sandro Martini
<sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> for Pivot 2.0, to better identify the version of Pivot (and to have a
> little more visibility of Pivot), what do you think to add a default
> modal about box (overridden by developers when needed) showing the
> Pivot logo, and below something like "Apache Pivot <version>" ?
> And maybe even some other data, like JVM memory used / max, etc ...
>
> At least could be linked by some of our demos, at least those with a menu.
>
>
> Open a ticket in jira, for 2.0 or 2.1, or never ?
>
> Bye,
> Sandro
>