New post-update screen

[jane]

Show user-friendly changelog screen with some click-to-show descriptions and links to codex for advanced or dev features. Accessed via W in header/admin bar, and through text links in footer (version thanks) and Updates screen (currently using text).

[koopersmith]

In [18745]:

Add new 'about this version' page (with filler content) and menu item. see #18742.

[koopersmith]

Still to come:

• Actual about page content
• Feature descriptions
• Text links in footer
• Updates screen link

[ocean90]

Why do we need this item in the admin bar? What's with credits or freedoms?

If it should be in the admin bar, can we add these links as a sub menu of the wp.org link?

Or something like this:

• W
  • Network Admin
  • Site Foo
  • Site Bar
  • About WordPress
    • Version
    • Help
    • Credits
    • ...

[jane]

@ocean: See testing results I just posted on wpdevel at ​http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/3-3-pre-beta-user-feedback-aka-testing-results/ . Tested doing that, wasn't very popular.

[jane]

We still need to add the real content to this screen, but I think we can go beta 1 as is and get it worked out and pretty by beta 2 (we also won't know for sure what's in until we make the call for beta 1). I'd close this ticket (the page *has* been created) and we can edit content on a new ticket, as we should do with each subsequent release.

[edwardw]

Relevant: #10989

[ocean90]

I don't want to create a new ticket, because this was a task ticket and isn't really finished.

• Is the design final?
• Translation is missing.
• Content is missing?

[nacin]

Let's leave this open for now, since it's here.

Things we need to do:

1) Implement the new design. (koop)

2) New content for this design.

3) Merge About, Credits, Freedoms. (me)

Starting to drop Credits/Freedoms from the admin bar. They'll become tabs on the About screen.

[nacin]

In [19128]:

Admin bar 'W' shakeup. About This Version is now About WordPress. Credits and Freedoms will now become tabs on the post-update screen. see #18742.

[koopersmith]

In [19135]:

Layout and filler content for new about page. CSS will be moved to the main files. props chexee. see #18742.

[nacin]

In [19136]:

Add about.php text/tabs to credits.php and freedoms.php. (Caution: Styles may settle during shipping.) see #18742.

[koopersmith]

In [19138]:

Move about page CSS to main CSS files. see #18742.

[nacin]

In [19140]:

Yank version numbers out of translated strings. TODO decide whether this should be major version only, which probably means about.php should also contain text about x.y vs x.y.z. see #18742.

[nacin]

Major question: When people update to a point release, will they be taken to this screen?

Second major question: What should the version numbers be, for 3.3.1? I'm thinking "Welcome to 3.3.1" and "Version 3.3.1," but "What's New in 3.3" -- and then a blurb at the bottom that explains x.y versus x.y.z. (We should have this text in core so it is translated for 3.3.1.)

[nacin]

In [19141]:

Remove copy-pasted classes. see #18742.

[koopersmith]

In [19143]:

Formatting and CSS for credits and freedoms pages. see #18742.

[koopersmith]

In [19144]:

The about pages are lonely orphans. see #18742.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #19143

[koopersmith]

Closing as fixed. Please open any bugs in a new ticket.

[nacin]

Replying to nacin:

Major question: When people update to a point release, will they be taken to this screen?

Second major question: What should the version numbers be, for 3.3.1? I'm thinking "Welcome to 3.3.1" and "Version 3.3.1," but "What's New in 3.3" -- and then a blurb at the bottom that explains x.y versus x.y.z. (We should have this text in core so it is translated for 3.3.1.)

[jane]

• Post-update to any version they should go to this screen.
• Tab should say what's new in the actual version (3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, whichever it is)
• Show fixes etc for actual new version. At end of list, show previous changes from major version under subheading for that major version.

[nacin]

In [19250]:

Style updates to translators list on Credits page. see #18742.

[jane]

@chexee is patching for revised layout and final content.

[chexee]

Adds in final content and first pass at new layout

[chexee]

Added patch and images. Last subsection and "Under the Hood" copy still pending. Jane mentioned she had some updates, but my schedule today was a bit erratic.

Tried to make it as responsive as possible, though might still need some tweaking at smaller screen sizes (paragraph breaks, etc.)

[jane]

Yes, I have the real text I thought would be put in before a patch was posted. Will be in IRC if someone wants to grab it from me.

[ocean90]

drag-and-drop.png is out of date (and probably new-feature-pointer.png after #18693 too).

[chexee]

Updates layout, adds latest copy

[chexee]

Latest patch updates the copy and layout, removes admin bar screenshot, and bumps the body text to 15px.

I also up'd updated all the screenshot images.

[duck_]

In [19396]:

Update "What's New" content and layout. Re-add i18n. Props chexee. See #18742.

[duck_]

In [19397]:

Remove unused admin-bar.png image. See #18742.

[dougwrites]

s/in/into, because "broken into these" has a happier meaning than "broken in these."

[dougwrites]

preposition tweak ? on content of What's New

[jane]

@dougwrites: good catch, but @chexee is in middle of patch to fix some other design and text tweaks. will just have her include there.

[chexee]

Refines layout and copy. Sets explicit width.

[chexee]

Updated the patch for a more refined layout and set a fixed width to the .about-wrap div.

Updated screenshots and ran them through an optimiser.

[duck_]

In [19409]:

Further tweaks to What's New layout and content. Props chexee. See #18742.

[duck_]

In [19412]:

Texturized apostrophes. See #18742.

[ocean90]

Current RTL screen: ​http://cl.ly/C2Rg

Don't know if the image positions are intentionally.

[jane]

Looks about right.

[duck_]

Replying to ocean90:

Current RTL screen: ​http://cl.ly/C2Rg

The text direction messes up the parens on is_main_query(). Setting style="direction:ltr" on the h4 would fix this. This fix would mess up it's alignment compared to the other headers, but I guess it could be fixed in turn with text-align: right. Anyone have a better suggestion?

Also, does anyone think it's necessary to make "is_main_query()" translatable? It didn't seem to make sense for it to be to me. If not then it doesn't need to be echo'd from PHP.

[chexee]

Replying to ocean90:

Current RTL screen: ​http://cl.ly/C2Rg

Don't know if the image positions are intentionally.

Those look off. They should stagger and the alert shouldn't crop hard there. I'll take a look.

[chexee]

fixes image alignment in RTL

[chexee]

Added RTL patch to float images correctly and align top of images to titles.

[chexee]

fixes RTL issues and header-image alignment.

[nacin]

In [19421]:

Punctuation tweaks to about.php. props jane. see #18742.

[duck_]

In [19422]:

Fix about.php RTL issues and image vertical alignment. Props chexee. See #18742.

[nacin]

In [19437]:

Update jQuery version on about.php. Force ltr for 'is_main_query()'. see #18742.

[koopersmith]

In [19443]:

Remove help tab from credits page, tweak about page CSS. props chexee, see #18742.

[chriscct7]

#10989 was marked as a duplicate.