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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About boxes
From:       David Sweet <dsweet () Glue ! umd ! edu>
Date:       1999-04-26 14:36:46
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Mirko Sucker wrote:

> 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

Cool.  That'll be a great start.

Dave
 

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