On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/6/2016 3:23 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:51:54AM +0200, jp charras wrote: >>> Le 06/10/2016 à 08:13, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit : >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Any comments on this patch I proposed a few weeks ago? >>>> >>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg26412.html >>>> >>>> The patch adds a menu item in the main menu Help list to launch the >>>> system's default browser and bring up the "Contribute to KiCad" page >>>> (http://kicad-pcb.org/contribute/). The idea is to promote awareness >>>> of how users can get involved, whether it's helping with documentation, >>>> libraries, etc. I think we have a great little group at the moment, but >>>> more experts helping out or new users learning about the internals of >>>> the software is always better. :) >>>> >>>> >>>> - Cirilo >>> > > @Cirilo, I didn't forget about it I've just been really busy. I will > try to get to it this weekend. >
Thanks, I understand; I've been far too busy recently to work on the other items I'd promised to look at like the generic progress dialog for external apps. - Cirilo >>> To be honest, if I like the idea, I am not thrilled by this (large?) patch. >>> A link in our About Kicad dialog (Information panel) could be better (only >>> 2 lines of code to add). >>> On this Information panel (the default panel when opening the dialog) there >>> are already the most >>> important links. >> >> As we discussed with Wayne on IRC a while ago, nobody will ever see it >> there. > > AFAIR I suggested adding this link to the about dialog as well but I > don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other. Cirilo is > correct that it could get lost along with all of the other information > in the about dialog. > >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
