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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 59573] Provide better means of reporting non-KDE/Bugzilla bugs
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-06-10 6:07:04
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------- Additional Comments From coolo@kde.org  2003-06-10 08:07 -------
Subject: Re:  New: Provide better means of reporting non-KDE/Bugzilla bugs

On Monday 09 June 2003 21:48, you wrote:

> We pass info in KApplication data that gets used to populate the About dialog, but \
> currently we can either get the standard bugs.kde.org URL or pass in an email \
> address. 
> The email address bit is nice, but it still has a KDE URL at the bottom.  "Please \
> check that the bug you are reporting...." 
> The project I'm hacking on (as a minor bit player) uses SourceForge, and while \
> having an interface to get bugs reported on our devel list is better than nothing, \
> we'd prefer to have people submit them via the SF tracker, and would like to be \
> able to specify a non-KDE URL in the About dialog. 
> I was thinking you could accept either an email address or a URL for the current \
> email address parameter, and then look at the thing to figure out which it is, and \
> act accordingly. 
> I've been meaning to send you a patch forever, but I'm not sure what you would \
> actually want to do here, and I'm still very, very green.  Perhaps the way I've \
> thought of to handle this is stupid.  In fact, I'd almost bet on it.  :) 
> Anyway, at the very least you should dump the KDE URL at the bottom of the email \
> version of the dialog.
Is an URL enough for you to handle the bug reports? I can think of some magic words \
in the URL that are replaced by the application's version or name. For this I even \
accept a patch :)

Greetings, Stephan


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