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Xarchiver -> Help -> Thanks to -> "Nonsence_here"
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Xarchiver
Component:
general

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Description Michal Nowak 2009-03-19 16:42:11 CET
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20090227 Fedora/3.1-0.7.beta2.fc11 Minefield/3.1b2
Build Identifier: xarchiver-0.5.2-3.fc11.x86_64

I don't get the purpose of item in Help -> Thanks to. This seems to me like a totally redundant item. If you wish to advertise your web and receive funds, fooling users with non-sence label won't help you. Could you, please, change it to "Donate" or "Project page"?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Giuseppe Torelli 2009-03-19 17:21:25 CET
I don't want to "fool" anyone. Please don't use heavy words. That label makes perfect sense. Those who will contribute will have their name there. If you mean that the label is in the wrong position that's another matter and we can continue talking about it.
Comment 2 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2009-03-19 19:49:19 CET
(In reply to comment #0)
> Could you, please, change it to "Donate" or "Project page"?

No, that's not the proper Name, because Giuseppe wants it to link to a "donate" or "project" page, but to the donator's pages instead.

(In reply to comment #1)
Giuseppe, we already talked about that in great depth and obviously I'm not the only one who has problems with this donators sub-menu. Please tell me: What if a website you link changes to something you can't subscribe to or gets compromised to offer viruses or trojans? How do withdraw this link once you released the code? How do you let me off the hook? As a maintainer I'm responsible for the packages I distribute. 

IIRC you did not answer these questions in our previous discussion, instead you made contradictory statements: First you said
"Well, if the menu items do not open the link in the system installed browser it's responsibility of the user to write char after char the url in the browser address bar."
but later you claimed
"I'm not making the links clickable; the user will have to manually type the URL into their broweser."

Also "The user is not taken there without explicit permission because he/she has to click and without knowing the url because the url will be visible next to the name."
is no argument at all, because the URL does tell nothing about the content of a website or does not catch redirects.

IMHO this bug should be reopened until you have a solution that is save for all of us. Remember: You as the author are the one in charge. Are you willing to bear this risk?
Comment 3 Giuseppe Torelli 2009-03-19 20:33:00 CET
(In reply to comment #2)
> Please tell me: What if
> a website you link changes to something you can't subscribe to or gets
> compromised to offer viruses or trojans? How do withdraw this link once you
> released the code? How do you let me off the hook? As a maintainer I'm
> responsible for the packages I distribute. 

I have to admit you are a strong-willed person. You are right, I have no control on the URL. I will change the menu entry to "Donate" linking to Xarchiver web site's donation page.
Comment 4 Giuseppe Torelli 2009-03-19 20:54:53 CET
"Fixed" in revision r29677.

Bug #5130

Reported by:
Michal Nowak
Reported on: 2009-03-19
Last modified on: 2009-03-19

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Assignee:
Giuseppe Torelli
CC List:
1 user

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