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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About boxes
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-04-22 13:47:58
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David Sweet wrote:
> 
> Since "About boxes" have come up, here's my two cents.  I'd like to see About
> boxes:
>         1) tell what the application does.  This could be so helpful for new
> users sitting down to a desktop with a bunch of applications.  Sometimes users
> don't know enough about computing terms and history to know, for example, that
> "kghostview" is used to view/preview files that were made to be sent to a
> printer.
>         2) have an active mailto: link (KURLLabel?) to send mail to
> maintainers.  Besides being convenient, it seems almost unnatural to me theses
> days to be presented with an email address and not be able to click on it (or
> even cut and paste it!)  An active link to the home page would be nice, too.

[SNIP}

> And, I'd be glad to change KApplication's about box method to incorporate these
> standards if people approve.

I think it would be a great improvement. Please go ahead.

Cheers,
Waldo

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