From 5ceb82d4e4b49f919caf156fa644360b6c66622a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Spitzmueller <spitz@lyx.org>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 14:51:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] GuiAbout: Detect and provide links to trac

Text in the form "bug #1234" is transformed to a link that points
to the respective trac entry.
---
 src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
index 3c4e84fe8d..d2a69e9d7a 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ static QString release_notes()
 					continue;
 				} if (incomment)
 					continue;
+
+				// detect links to the tracker
+				line.replace(QRegExp("(bug )(\\#)(\\d+)*"),
+					     "<a href=\"http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/\\3\">\\1\\3</a>");
+
 				// headings
 				if (line.startsWith("!!!")) {
 					if (inlist) {
@@ -267,6 +272,7 @@ GuiAbout::GuiAbout(GuiView & lv)
 	d->ui.versionLA->setText(version());
 	d->ui.buildinfoTB->setText(buildinfo());
 	d->ui.releasenotesTB->setHtml(release_notes());
+	d->ui.releasenotesTB->setOpenExternalLinks(true);
 	d->ui.creditsTB->setHtml(credits());
 
 	d->ui.tab->setUsesScrollButtons(false);