Re: [Warzone2100-project] [Warzone2100-commits] [Warzone2100/warzone2100] 06d971: Fix menu small text alignment issues. Had to remov...

[Per I. M. <per...@gm...>]

It just looked really ugly, and I figured if people would follow the
link, they'd know they had been scammed, since the web page says
clearly what we are.

After all, by the time they read this text, it is already too late...

  - Per

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:39 AM, buginator <bug...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Per Inge Mathisen <pe...@wz...> wrote:
>>   Branch: refs/heads/bugfixes
>>   Home:   https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100
>>   Commit: 06d971e0e3018da85fcc7137379a1055e4219b7b
>>       https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100/commit/06d971e0e3018da85fcc7137379a1055e4219b7b
>>   Author: Per Inge Mathisen <pe...@wz...>
>>   Date:   2012-12-08 (Sat, 08 Dec 2012)
>>
>>   Changed paths:
>>     M src/frontend.cpp
>>
>>   Log Message:
>>   -----------
>>   Fix menu small text alignment issues. Had to remove some explanatory
>> text from front menu. Changed screaming caps to sane capitalization.
>>
>
>
> -  addSmallTextButton(FRONTEND_HYPERLINK, FRONTEND_POS8X,
> FRONTEND_POS8Y, _("Warzone 2100 is completely free and open source
> (FLOSS). Official site: http://wz2100.net/"), 0);
>
> +  addSmallTextButton(FRONTEND_HYPERLINK, FRONTEND_POS8X,
> FRONTEND_POS8Y, _("Official site: http://wz2100.net/"), 0);
>
> Are not really the same thing.
>
> The point of that message was to show people it is FLOSS, since those
> scam auction type sites, (as well as the others that don't say where
> they got the game from in their installers) pre-install the game on to
> CD, so the user didn't see any installer message or anything else...
> We have had a couple complaints on the forum, and a few e-mails as
> well about this issue.
> That is when we talked about what to write on the ML.