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Hello all.
As you may know, we ship a launcher called "Release Notes" in our default install. During the F18 Launcher Purge[1] Allan asked the docs team to remove it from the default install, but his request was rejected[2].
But now we have guidelines[3], and the guidelines state:
- An "app" is an application as defined by the GNOME 3 HIG[4]
- An app launcher SHOULD Launch software that is an actual app - see
the GNOME 3 HIG for the exact definition
And the release notes, well, are not an app (per the definition in the GNOME 3 HIG).
Moreover, I don't really think users expect to find release notes inside the OS itself - no other OS does that.
We can link to the release notes in our download page, our help page on the website (which will be linked from start.fpo once I finish implementing the new designs we got), and a bookmark in Firefox (pointing to a local copy of the release notes) - so the release notes won't exactly be invisible or inaccessible.
Or it could simply be in Software, which is where software is.