Links in welcome messages are a little confusing

[allanday]

The links that are shown in the welcome messages are cool, but I think that they might confuse some people:

Links of this sort aren't typical in the terminal, and I'm not sure that the dotted underline will always be understood to mean that it's a link.

The other issue is that, if it is a link, clicking it should open something, and it doesn't.

It might be better to change the link text to be the address, so people are able to easily identify it as a link.

[aniruddha2000]

Hello! I am new to this project and would like to contribute :D
Seems it's a documentation issue so I would like to work on this.

[debarshiray]

Links of this sort aren't typical in the terminal, and I'm not
sure that the dotted underline will always be understood
to mean that it's a link.

They are actually becoming common these days. The ability to mark some text as a hyperlink, similar to HTML's <a href= was introduced by VTE (see bug 779734 and issue 7736) and iTerm2 (see issue 5158) in 2017. Since then a number of terminal emulators have added support for it, including Windows Terminal, Konsole, Alacritty, tmux and xterm.js.

Similarly, a bunch of CLI applications and tools have started using it. Among them, systemd (try hostnamectl, systemctl status sssd-kcm), GCC, less and groff.

Here is a more exhaustive write-up on the topic.

The other issue is that, if it is a link, clicking it should
open something, and it doesn't.

It might be better to change the link text to be the
address, so people are able to easily identify it as a link.

At the moment, in GNOME Terminal, hovering the mouse on top of the link shows a bubble with the link, and one can use ctrl+click or right click to open it.

I suppose it's worth discussing with the terminal folks what the behaviour should be?

[debarshiray]

I mean, hostnamectl and systemctl status ... are vastly more exposed to users than the one-time Toolbx banner. So it's worth trying to see what the consensus is, and if it can be improved, before doing a one-off in Toolbx.