Re: Re: About box redesign

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

garrison users sourceforge net (2000-09-11 at 1954.39 -0400):
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> > app. Maybe even more things like parameters, so people can learn how
> > to do that, and how to do more. Some users want to learn, and the rest
> > can ignore all this.
> I think this belongs in help files.  We don't want the about box to get too
> bloated.  Otherwise, I think an about-box redesign is a great idea.

Think about about box as "app --help" not "man app" or "info app".
That is what I am asking for, a fast way to get fast info, not the
full docs.

This way people learn there are options (last line in parameters dump
should say how to read the full docs and have a link to them) and can
remember what they can do ("I think there was a way to invoke a new
window, but how?... About box... Found it, --new-window!").

What is more: "app --ghelp" in command line could launch the about box
instead of dumping info to console like "app --help" does. OK, asking
too much. :]

[Please CC to Telsa (hobbit) but not to me]

GSR