About box
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Mar 26 18:43:00 GMT 2004
Jack Tanner wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> My apologies for saying this AFTER you did the work... The about box is
> wrong. (Sorry, sorry, hold the flames.)
>
> These links really belong in the Start menu (ideally under
> Programs\Cygwin, but they'd also be acceptable under Programs\Cygwin/X).
> This way, the links being URLs and links to .html files, they
> automatically inherit the icon of the default web browser, making it
> obvious what they point to.
I disagree, at least for the time being. The reason is that we do not
currently have such links being installed to the Start menu. We have
the X-start-menu-icons package, but that is not sophisticated enough to
create links to files that should be opened with cygstart.
In short, this solution took 6 hours, the alternative would take more
like 30. I've not got 30 hours to spend, so it is going to stay like it
is unless someone sends a comprehensive patch that fixes *everything*
related to this desire.
> What should really be in the about box is something like this:
>
> [logo] Cygwin/X X11R6 Server
> Copyright blah
> Licensed under GPL (use standard short FSF blurb here)
> Installed Packages (xserv 4.3.0-62, xterm 185-4, etc.)
> Visit us at http://x.cygwin.com. (Make URL blue, underlined, and a
> link to the site).
Yeah, URLs... tried it in a dialog box before? I spent about 4 hours
researching it and could only find that you can have one font for the
whole box. Unless we make this a true window it probably isn't going to
be possible.
> The about box's window title should be "About Cygwin/X".
>
> The tray menu's entry for the about box should be between "hide/show
> root window" and "exit"; it should not be the bottom-most entry. The
> entry itself should be called not "About..." but "About Cygwin/X".
This is the sort of thing that really pisses me off. I modeled this
after the SQL Server tray icon. It has "About..." as the bottom entry
and "Exit" above that. I basically flipped a coin and went with it
because I knew that no matter which way I ordered it somebody would
bitch about it not being right. I'll let the mailing list fight amongst
themselves until a clear winner is chosen, until then I'm not touching it.
> Thanks for all your hard work, Harold et al! Here's hoping you get that
> clipboard bug soon.
Thanks.
Harold
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