Simple GUI to display static text informations

Question

I would like to know if there is a way to write or modify a simple program (I don't really care what language it'll use) that can be launched in GUI mode and will display formated text and URL that will open in a web-browser by a simple clic.

A good example of the program I would like to run is the "About - Information" window that can be found on most programs, example :

It has everything I look for :

• Simple windows using same theme as the DE
• No menu
• Possibility of displaying images
• Formated text (bold, italic, font-size)
• URL links with custom clickable name
• Buttons (that one is not really important, it could be usefull but I'm afraid it's too hard to configure "actions" for my level in development)

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My idea would be going for something like that (where orange is a URL link) :

Note : I just drew that, it isn't an existing program.

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I unfortunately don't have time to learn a developer language like C++, Python, QT, but I can examine a file with gedit (or alike) and adapt the content, that shouldn't be really difficult as I have experience on looking at configuration files and modifying them, you know, to see what would happen if I change this or that.

Are there any prebuilt code I could use and/or modify ?

Thanks

PS: HTML would have been great but apparently there's no easy way to achieve this, nor prebuilt "html interpretator non web-browser" I could use.

Answer 1

Why not using QML and the Ubuntu SDK to build such screens? Here's a snippet of code that you could use to embed images, links and controls:

demo.qml

import QtQuick 2.0
import Ubuntu.Components 0.1

MainView {
    id: main
    width: units.gu(100)
    height: units.gu(75)

    Column {
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        spacing: units.gu(5)
        Text{
            text: "Hello"
        }

        Text{
            text: '<a href="http://askubuntu.com">askubuntu</a>'
            onLinkActivated: Qt.openUrlExternally(link)
        }

        Button {
            text: "button"
        }
    }
}

To run it, use qmlscene:

qmlscene ./demo.qml