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
