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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About boxes
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1999-04-22 13:53:59
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, 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.

Well, have a look at the about-box in ksysv... unfortunately no
easy-to-use class :( but I think the look may be what you want...

Peter 

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