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Re: About box
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:04:27AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>>>
>>>>Okay, I did it myself. We now have an About box that can be opened from
>>>>the tray icon menu. The About box contains four buttons that link to
>>>>our website (x.cygwin.com), our User's Guide on the website, our FAQ on
>>>>the website, and our ChangeLog that is installed locally with the
>>>>XFree86-xserv package.
>>>>
>>>>I would like to modify this slightly in the future to check if the
>>>>User's Guide and FAQ have been installed locally (via the cygwin-x-doc
>>>>package) and to open those local documents instead of going out to the
>>>>web everytime.
>>>>
>>>>The About box is neat, check it out in XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-62 when it
>>>>hits mirrors soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>Sounds cool.
>>>
>>>Any chance that it could also contain a link to the main cygwin web
>>>site, too?
>>
>>Yeah, I think that could be done.
>>
>>I was also just talking to some people that frequently visit the Cygwin
>>web site, but had no idea that the Cygwin/X web site even existed. It
>>seems that it would be useful to add a short blurb on the main Cygwin
>>site that says something like "Try Cygwin/X for a full-featured free X
>>Server for Windows including clipboard integration, desktop integration,
>>and more". I don't want to add that right away, but do you see a
>>problem with my doing so in the near future?
>
>There is a link at the side to "X11". If you think that's unclear then change
>it to something clearer. If you want to advertise releases in the news page
>that's fine, too.
>
>I don't think special dispensation for the Cygwin/X project is appropriate
>for the main page.
And, if this seems inconsistent with my asking for a cygwin link in the About
box, then feel free to ignore my request...
cgf