libxfcegui4 version to try

[Benedikt Meurer]

Good evening everybody,

I finally came around to finish my work on an about dialog for xfce 
applications (something ones one ask me to do in the pre 4.0 days, but I never 
completed the stuff till now). The class for this is XfceAboutDialog in 
xfce_aboutdialog.h/.c. To minimize the API for this dialog class (to keep it 
easy to adjust), I put the data in a separate structure XfceAboutInfo which is 
given to the XfceAboutDialog constructor, besides a parent window and an 
optionally application icon.

Attached to this mail are 3 screenshots showing how the about dialog looks 
like (in case of the session manager).

The attached tarball requires latest libxfce4util to work, as I moved the 
licenses to libxfce4util to not require the user to install xfce-utils just to 
get the license texts showing.

The XFce version ("XFce 4.1.4") string you see on the screenshots is currently 
taken from the libxfcegui4 VERSION macro. This is one thing I'd like to get 
rid of. I'd like to see a function xfce_get_version_string() or similar in 
libxfce4util that returns a) either the libxfce4util VERSION, replacing 
xfce-utils as the "Version package" (which makes more sense to me, since 
libxfce4util has to be installed in any case, whereas xfce-utils is optinal), 
or b) adding a special version string to libxfce4util - set from configure.ac 
- that tells the XFce version number, which can then be different from the 
version number of the libxfce4util package. Olivier, Jasper, Edscott, Botsie, 
what do you think? a), b) or another way?

regards,
Benedikt

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