RFC: changes to the About application

[Aaron J. Seigo]

** Proposed Change **
Add links to plasma-active.org to "About" page, include the intro video if it 
still exists on disk, replace the technical "cross-device user experience" 
with something more meaningful to the user, open links in a Browser window, 
move the mention of Contour and Basyskom to the Authors tab.

** Reason For Change **
Right now the About dialog has very little value to the user. It is, really, 
all about us and how great we are. ;) The only moderately useful information 
there is the version numbers, and then generally only for debugging or manual 
compatibility checking purposes. In this  sense, I think we lost site of the 
"users first" goal here. i'm doubtful it really belongs as the first item in 
the launcher, but if a "remove item" context menu entry is added here (as 
proposed in the RFC on adding icons to the launcher) then that should become a 
moot point, but right now it's just _always_ there.

I also think putting one specific authors / contributors link on the About 
page sets up a very unfortunate community dynamic that makes trying to get 
other companies interested more difficult and which does not demonstrate 
proper respect for those who also contributed significantly to the concepts 
and code in prior times.

the unhumble, does-not-improve-the-user's-experience nature of this 
application deserves fixing.

** Implementation Details **
- needs to check if the welcome video is still there; if not don't include it
- links clicked on should not be shown in-line as there is no navigation 
provided so you can't "get back" to where you were (either that or else keep 
the about/authors/license bar always there so the user may go back to those 
entries)
- licensing tab should have the LGPL 2.1 also added to it as well as the BSD 
license which is used in some of our code

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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