[rfc][icedtea-web] Removing applications tab in jawas-about

[Andrew Azores]

On 05/22/2013 10:22 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> On 05/22/2013 03:25 PM, Andrew Azores wrote:
>> Removed applications.html and references to it in "jawas -about"
>>
>> Changelog:
>>
>> extra/net/sourceforge/javaws/about/Main.java: Removed applications tab
>> extra/net/sourceforge/javaws/about/resources/applications.html: 
>> Removed unneeded file
>
>
> Hi! To be honest - I'm for complete removal of this "about". Or at 
> least of much more havy  refactoring
>
> Also to be honest(2) this is so deeply needed that it deserves an line 
> in http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#IcedTea-Web_1.5 table.
>
> It should work at least somehow in headless mode, and should be 
> generated from already existing resources (eg authors, news...)
>
> So in short - get rid of "extras" jar (and it logic in makefile) and 
> write specialised about dialogue inisde netx itself:) Feel free to be 
> inspired by existing one, but avoid duplicated resources.
>
> if you want to bother with it (+1!) then please assign yourself on 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#IcedTea-Web_1.5, and go on!
>
>
>
> Best regards from CZ!
>   J.

Hi Jiri,

I'll take a look into creating that dialogue, it should be a good 
opportunity for me to keep learning more about the code base before 
delving into more difficult tasks.

Thanks for the feedback.

Andrew A