Suggestion: add "about " and "go to website" to right-click popup menu

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Suggestion: add "about " and "go to website" to right-click popup menu

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Post by DSperber » Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:54 pm

The new "advice" balloons that appear in the notification (system tray) area over the EPG icon there, very useful of course. But there's no way to easily determine the currently installed version without opening EPG123 (Client or Configuration GUI) itself and looking at the title bar.

And also there is now the indication that a new program version update is available. This too is very useful. But it's not very convenient to go to the web page to get the new download. You can get there through assorted means, but none of them are single-click instantaneous. For example you can open the Configuration GUI (and wait a bit for that to happen), and then click on the "web site / donate" link at the bottom of that window.

I think it might be helpful and convenient if you added both (a) ABOUT and (b) WEB SITE" items to the popup menu itself. Clicking on ABOUT would reveal the currently installed program version. Clicking on WEB SITE would launch the default browser to the EPG123 page, where DOWNLOAD is immediately available (for the just advised new version available) if that's what you wanted to do.

Or, even more direct, on the notification that there is a new version available why not provide a "click here" offering that would immediately launch the browser as required, right there from the notification balloon itself.

That way both commonly actions could be initiated with a simple single-click directly from the context menu. No delay, nor extraneous intermediate step to obtain the same information or provide the objective shortcut or link.

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