Migrating from GnomeAbout to GtkAboutDialog
Since version 2.6, GTK+ provides the GtkAboutDialog
widget as a replacement for the GnomeAbout dialog in the libgnomeui library.
views.
GtkAboutDialog supports all features found in
GnomeAbout. The GtkAboutDialog API is bigger, since it follows the GTK+ policy to
have getters and setters for all widget properties, but it isn't much more complex
than GnomeAbout.
To convert an application that uses GnomeAbout to GtkAboutDialog,
as a first step, replace calls like
const gchar *documentors[] = {
"Documenter 1",
"Documenter 2",
NULL
};
const gchar *documentors[] = {
"Author 1",
"Author 2",
NULL
};
GtkWidget *about = gnome_about_new ("GNOME Test Program", VERSION,
"(C) 1998-2001 The Free Software Foundation",
"Program to display GNOME functions.",
authors,
documenters,
_("translator-credits"),
"logo.png");
by something like
GdkPixbuf *logo = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file ("logo.png", NULL);
GtkWidget *about = g_object_new (GTK_TYPE_ABOUT_DIALOG,
"name", "GNOME Test Program",
"version", VERSION,
"copyright", "(C) 1998-2001 The Free Software Foundation",
"comments", "Program to display GNOME functions.",
"authors", authors,
"documenters", documenters,
"translator-credits", _("translator-credits"),
"logo", logo,
NULL);
g_object_unref (pixbuf);
If the g_object_new() construction scares you,
you can also use gtk_about_dialog_new() to
construct the dialog and then use the setters for the individual properties.
Once you are done with the initial conversion, you may want to look into using some of the
features of GtkAboutDialog which are not present in GnomeAbout.
You can specify license information
with the license property
You can add separate credits for artists with the
artists property
You can add a pointer to the website of your application, using the
website and
website-label properties.
If your credits contain email addresses or urls, you can turn them into clickable
links using
gtk_about_dialog_set_email_hook() and
gtk_about_dialog_set_url_hook().