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Links in welcome messages are a little confusing
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.
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.
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?
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.