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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

>> 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
>>
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