[Bug 6836] About Box does not have enough space for custom text

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6836

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-07-12 21:22 -------
> It doesn't have to look the same, but cutting off szOtherStuff is not
> acceptable.  I also think it should attempt to provide copyright information
> from the program resources.

I agree that is cutting off szOtherStuff is bad and should be fixed but I think
that displaying "Wine was bought to you by ..." list is nice idea. In fact it
definitely doesn't say that depelopers of Wine created *this* application - it
just say who developed Wine. Also please note that Wine's notepad and others
Wine's standard programs also uses this about box. And I agree with Mike - it
is good practice to create patches and then discuss them for such minor bugs
if you really care about this. Of course I do not say that someone who created
bug report *must* create patches to get bug fixed - this way simply faster for
such trivial bugs.
> In at least one case (original
> Notepad), there is no indication of the original copyright/authorship at all,
> and a careless read makes it seem like Wine wrote it!

If you managed to run original Notepad then you must know that it belongs to
Windows. But in fact it is more Notepad's bug that it doesn't contain copyright
information (real (not neccessary official) copyright owner is programmer(s)
who wrote it and not Microsoft; in this case Microsoft is official copyright
owner). Theoretically it is possible to determine that that this is Microsoft
Notepad and display this within about box but someone must write patch for
this. It would be nice of course and I agree that it is good if someone
implement this but such implementation should be careful - it shouldn't display
Microsoft's copyright within Wine's Notepad!

I think that only "real" bug is problem with szOtherStuff. Other problems
discussed here isn't actually bugs - I think it is more correct to call them
design solutions. What design is better is just someone's opinion and virtually
all opinions that make any sense is "right" but only one can be actually used.