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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Why isn't there a KDE2 Beta 2 announcement?
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-01-31 19:00:22
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On Wednesday 31 January 2001 19:47, Peter Putzer wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:42:43PM +0100, Peter Putzer wrote:
> > > > To make sure that KDE 2.1 will become very polished and stable I
> > > > propose that we tag HEAD as a "Release Candidate" on Feb 12th. After
> > > > that date only critical commits (and icons/translations) should be
> > > > allowed for five days. Then on Feb 17th we should tag HEAD as KDE
> > > > 2.1final.
> > >
> > > Sounds good! The new khelpcenter/konqueror pages are really nice.
> > > One thing, though: should konqueror's "About" dialog be replaced by
> > > "about:konqueror" entirely?
> >
> > I don't think so. I think it's good that the current about dialog is
> > consistent across all applications on the desktop and I quite like it
> > (it shows all necessary information in a nice compact way) .
>
> What use is it then? Or is the about:konqueror stuff to be the manual?
> If not, no one is ever going to see it...

about:konqueror is being displayed in the Web-profile by default and has 
several aims:

- it's a Quickstart-manual (gives some hints/tips which the user will very 
probably read due to the shortness and the nice design)
- It makes Konqueror look nice and gives the feeling that you deal with 
something professional
- It gives an overview over the Specifications in a prominent places so even 
journalists will hopefully find it and will be stuffed with proper facts.
- Therefor it's of course also a kind of advertising for konqueror.

For future releases there are some plans to extend these pages to make it 
possible to see which w3-features don't work and *why* they don't work.
So we'll hopefully get rid of quite some traffic on newsgroups and 
mailinglists of people who "feel" that something doesn't work properly in 
their rpms/builds and don't really know why/what doesn't work.

Greetings,
Tackat


> regards,
> Peter

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