About box

[Harold L Hunt II]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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...

Yes, it seems inconsistent to me.

Cygwin/X is different than a port of package foo to Cygwin: Cygwin/X is 
an integral piece of Cygwin and runs *only* on Cygwin; it is much more 
important than a port.

The reason I brought it up is that I had three people telling me they 
had been using Cygwin for years and never even thought that a Cygwin/X 
page existed.  They all requested that a blurb be put on the main Cygwin 
page so that people will actually see it.  Their complaint about the 
link in the left bar is that it looked like just another part of the 
Cygwin pages, not an entire web site by itself.

Harold