feature: Enhance and update about dialog

[DSCaskey]

This enhances the layout of the About dialog and updates the contributors.

Dialog is now split into 3 tabs.

• About - Displays the basic build and legal information. This tab also adds a Copy to Clipboard that copies the build and system information to the clipboard that can then be pasted into for ex: a bug report.

• Moves the downloading widget to the button box area .

• Now displays the proper compiler version for MSVC when MSVC 2019 or greater.

  

• System - Displays extended information about the build and machine system.

  

• Contributors - Displays the list of project contributors. Fixes the list so it is actually in alphabetical order. Updates the list with new contributors.

  

• Fixes the Image Dialog so it is parented to the Mainwindow.

This closes issue #1094

[what-the-diff]

🚀 PR Summary

What an exciting progress! 🎉 Let's go through the amazing changes this PR brings to the table:

• 🌟 Added a new dialogue, "About 2D App". This is encapsulated in two new files about2d_dialog.cpp and about2d_dialog.h in src/app/seamly2d/dialogs directory. This creative move enhances our application UX by providing impactful information about the 2D feature of our app. 😎

• 👋 Said goodbye to old code. Removed the "About App" dialog, reflected in the removal of dialogaboutapp.cpp and dialogaboutapp.h. But don't worry! 😇 We replaced it with our shiny new "About 2D App" dialog.

• 🔄 Revamped some lines in mainwindow.cpp to ensure communication is on point! Can't read image was changed to a more intuitive Import Image and we switched DialogAboutApp with About2DAppDialog in two places. Small stuff but they're making the app better one step at a time. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

• 🧽 Gave mainwindow.ui a little clean-up. We swept away trailing whitespace and extra space in the Text property of Images tools QMenu action. Cleanliness is next to effectiveness! 🧹💯

• 🛠️ Some under-the-hood changes. In image_dialog.cpp, the nameChanged function was replaced with ui->filename_Label. A subtle change that makes things work even better!

• 👌 Tweaked the image_dialog.ui. We changed the maximum width of the dialog and rearranged certain items in the layout, making the UI more pleasing 😍 We also added a QLabel widget for the "filename" label.

• 🎁 Lastly, in src/libs/vmisc/projectversion.cpp, we added if statements to check the value of _MSC_VER and return the corresponding MSVC version string. Think of it as our way of making sure the app knows what's up. 🧠

Keep up the good work, team! Excited to see these changes in action! 🚀🌈

[csett86]

Overall looks great, thank you!

I checked on macOS and there the build date (using the artifact from the github action) did not show, only the time:

It happens both in the general and in the more detailed system dialog:

Other than that it looks good:

I'll check if the build date works on the current releases.

[csett86]

Yes, currently its still working fine on macOS (with latest release 2024.4.15):

[csett86]

Overall great, just the build date is broken on any non-US locale, but that should be an easy fix by reverting to the previous line of code

[DSCaskey]

@csett86

Overall great, just the build date is broken on any non-US locale, but that should be an easy fix by reverting to the previous line of code

I checked the code... seems that there's a difference between QLocale() and QLocale::c() with the date. I reverted the date back to QLocale::c() so it should be fine now.

[DSCaskey]

@csett86

Did the change back to QLocale::c() fix the date issue? If so can we merge?

[csett86]

Yes, its now looking good, I also just fixed the German translation as we are on it anyway (It was wrong before already, no regression, just while testing it I noticed it):

I'll now merge