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Display OS in about dialogue #909

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flywire opened this issue Jul 8, 2023 · 3 comments
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Display OS in about dialogue #909

flywire opened this issue Jul 8, 2023 · 3 comments
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flywire commented Jul 8, 2023

It would be useful to add OS to the about screen so users can copy/paste the info into bug reports

@dreua dreua added feature Request for a new feature UX UI/UX (User Interface / User Experience) labels Jul 9, 2023
@dreua dreua changed the title Enhancement Request - About OS Display OS in about dialogue Jul 9, 2023
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dreua commented Jul 9, 2023

It would also be good to know if it is a flatpak.

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flywire commented Jul 9, 2023

The About form does not allow all information to be selected at the same time so rearranging the form could fix most of this issue. Consider a button to ensure appropriate info is copied consistently, like LibreOffice as shown below:

[Seems App name should be included]
Version: 7.5.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 36ccfdc35048b057fd9854c757a8b67ec53977b6
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

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dreua commented Jul 15, 2023

Ftr, this is how it looks inside a flatpak:

sh-5.1$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME=GNOME
VERSION="44 (Flatpak runtime)"
VERSION_ID=44
ID=org.gnome.Platform
PRETTY_NAME="GNOME 44 (Flatpak runtime)"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/issues/new"
HOME_URL="https://www.gnome.org/"

There is also the /app/ directory but I guess getting the PRETTY_NAME or whatever should be sufficient. I am, however, not sure if someone will find the time to work on this. Ideally there would be better support for this in Gnome itself or some library, not much point in each application implementing it itself, is there?

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