Added links to internet resources

[oscargus]

Added links to home page, blog, and Facebook.

Not obvious where to put it in the menu nor if the "JabRef on the internet" is a good name (probably not, but cannot really find anything better).

I didn't bother adding the strings so far as I expect at least a few of them to change. :-)

• Change in CHANGELOG.md described
• Screenshots added (for bigger UI changes)
• Manually tested changed features in running JabRef
• Check documentation status (Issue created for outdated help page at help.jabref.org?)

[matthiasgeiger]

How about adding those links to the "About JabRef" dialog?

We already have to much menu entries, imho. 😉

[mlep]

I would say the same as @matthiasgeiger about:

• "Online Help Forum" (since this is a secondary mean of finding help, as mentioned in http://help.jabref.org/en/ )
• "Fork me on GitHub" (if you are a decent programmer, you do not need this item to start contributing code)

[oscargus]

I was also thinking about it (main reason to use a sub menu). What about moving at least the GitHub link to the same sub menu? The forum link may be worth to keep to get the momentum up there.

Regarding adding them to the About dialog, I think that is much less used than the Help menu so if we want people to see it, it may be good to have them in the Help menu.

[oscargus]

Or rename it "JabRef resources" and/or add the forum link there as well.

[oscargus]

Considering the translation effort in #1824 it may not be worth trying to get this into 3.6 (avoid adding more new strings at the moment), so maybe better to wait and discuss it a bit further.

[matthiasgeiger]

I still think that the other links are more important/relevant and could remain in the menu:
It is the "Help" menu - so linking to the online forum to get help is reasonable.
Showing possibilities to contribute/donate is also clearly important for us.

The web page, the blog, facebook are all rather unimportant links for the user - and for us. But if we decide to add a "JabRef resources" sub menu I would at least add the github and donate link there (icons are already shown in the toolbar) and place the submenu between "Check for updates" and "About JabRef".

And if we should reach some concensus it should be also possible to include this in 3.6 as @mlep, you and me could provide translations for the three language with the best translation status ;-)

[mlep]

I am fine with the proposal of @matthiasgeiger

[oscargus]

OK! I'll have a go with that then. Just thought that 13 or whatever followers on Facebook didn't seem enough. :-)

[oscargus]

New menu:

[Siedlerchr]

Looks cool! I would move Donate more upwards ;)
And I would rename Web page to Website. Apart from that ❤️

[oscargus]

I changed to website. Regarding the ordering I had an idea to introduce a few more items and also separators:

Website
Blog
Facebook
(Separator)
Github
Developer version (-> builds.jabref.org/master)
Change log (-> Github master version)
(Separator)
Donate

In this way the donate link will get more attention, but I didn't want to add the other two without discussion. At least on non-Linux versions where at least on my CentOS machine, the separators are not rendered.

[matthiasgeiger]

Okay - as we already introduced the submenu we can also add the other links ;-)

Instead of "Developer version", which sounds like "a version specific for developers" I propose to use "Development version"; GitHub instead of "Github" 😉

German translations:

Website=Webseite
Blog=Blog
Development_version=Entwicklungsversion
JabRef_resources=Mehr_zu_JabRef

The last one is rather hard to translate, imho... Perhaps another native speaker can come up with a better translation...

[oscargus]

I was actually not planning on changing the "Fork me..." (although I would like to), so do not worry about "Github". ;-)

I agree with you regarding Developer/Development. Just couldn't figure out the better wording.

[oscargus]

[oscargus]

A bit annoying that the change log is shown with the development information as well. Is it possible to show only the most recent change log in some way?

[matthiasgeiger]

I'm already trying to figure this out ;-)

[oscargus]

I think "Mehr zu JabRef" makes sense as we might just as well have called it "More on JabRef".

[matthiasgeiger]

I have not found a way to link the changelog of the latest release.. There is only the shortcut https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/latest

So we either link to the master CHANGELOG or we have to put some more effort in the link creation logic by determining the current JabRef version and adding it to https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/v**versionNumberHere**/CHANGELOG.md

[oscargus]

I'd say go with the current solution and eventually script a copy of the ChangeLog to jabref.org/ChangeLog.md (or something) on merging to master.

[mlep]

Maybe we need to be able to link to the sections of the master changelog.md file
Related to JabRef/www.jabref.org#24 ?

[Siedlerchr]

@matthiasgeiger I would propose "Entwicklerversion" for Development Version as translation

[matthiasgeiger]

No :-) See the discussion above: It is not a "version for developers" (==Entwicklerversion) but a version which is currently under development (==Entwicklungsversion) 😜

[oscargus]

@mlep My plan was really just to link to the current CHANGELOG.md, so maybe the formulation is misleading (although correct as you can see all changes in all versions there).

[mlep]

@oscargus My misunderstanding, sorry.

[oscargus]

@mlep No problems. I fully understand it (and was thinking of this possible misunderstanding when I wrote it, seems like I was correct...).

[koppor]

One can directly link to the release in CHANGELOG.md, when one uses the GitHub repository: One could also link the concrete release. E.g., https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#35---2016-07-13

However, in the URL, the release date has also encoded. Maybe we directly change the link before each release?

[matthiasgeiger]

Yeah with link changes it would be no problem - but we wanted to avoid these.

Shall we add this last minute to 3.6?

[mlep]

Since it may help in attracting attention to JabRef supporting tools, and hence foster its development, I tend to answer yes.

[oscargus]

I'll resolve the merge conflicts if nothing else and let us see.

I think it is fine to link to the complete CHANGELOG.md, not just for the actual release as it is quite clear what the different versions are. I tend to think that the current solution is good enough right now, but a better looking version (without the version management stuff) can be found for 3.7.

[matthiasgeiger]

@mlep Can you provide us the translations for French? 😀

[stefan-kolb]

I'd better liked the Jabref resources under help forum. 3 links for web resources, then error console check for updates and about dialog.

[matthiasgeiger]

I like the current position 😉

[oscargus]

OK, I've rebased. Still in the position of the last screen shot...

[mlep]

Translation: Ouvre_la_page_Facebook_de_JabRef

[matthiasgeiger]

Okay. Thanks @mlep! I'll merge the PR as is and add the French translations directly at master.