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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 06:34:34PM +1100, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> I think the main reason the patch is that size is that I had to touch
> quite a few files to add the help item to the many different Help menus
> (eeschema, schematic symbol editor, footprint editor, pcbnew, etc). I think
> the About dialog is so full of information now that people will miss the
> link if we put it there.  Adding the actual menu item in each different
> Help menu and the wxWidgets code to run the browser are actually
> only a very few lines. I suggested adding an item to the About dialog at
> one stage but many of our current contributors told me that they thought
> it wasn't the best thing to do.

Sorry for being so "naive", you see I am not a dev... but I am wondering
if it could spare some code using an unique "about" or help dialog and dialog
code across all KiCad apps...

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Marco Ciampa

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