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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About boxes
From:       Mirko Sucker <mirko.sucker () unibw-hamburg ! de>
Date:       1999-04-24 18:17:59
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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.
> 
I have written already a class "KAboutDialog" that features the
following:
° a headline
° a logo image
° displaying person:
- the author
- the maintainer
- an arbitrary number of contributors,
(all with email-address and URL, clickable).
I will contact Kalle Dalheimer on how to put it in KApplication or
somewhere else.
Greetings,
--Mirko.
-- 
mirko.sucker@unibw-hamburg.de

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