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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About boxes
From:       Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date:       1999-04-22 15:35:54
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Am Thu, 22 Apr 1999 schrieb Peter Putzer:
>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

Looks nice. Should not be too hard to rewrite, but there are still a few bugs.
When I run it as root (from konsole, after su-ing to root, I get this when I
click on the mailto-URL:

Warning: ERROR: KFM is not running
Warning: *********** KFM crashed **************
Warning: KFM recovery
sh: kfm: command not found
Warning: ERROR: KFM is not running
Warning: KFM recovery done
Warning: KFM NOT READY
Warning: ERROR: KFM is not running
Warning: *********** KFM crashed **************
Warning: KFM recovery
sh: kfm: command not found
Warning: ERROR: KFM is not running
Warning: KFM recovery done
Warning: KFM NOT READY

Ciao,
	Mario

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