Quote from Zalewa
I agree with you that going with the textbox is the correct approach. Add it to the plugins tab in the About dialog and you should be able to populate it with any text the plugin provides.

The text itself, however, is another thing altogether. There's currently no API to provide such text. You could see how the name and version are inserted. The text that appears there is set in the init() call (example: chocolatedoomengineplugin.cpp, look for init() call in the constructor). However, any data that is generated there in this init() is generated only once and also before the translations are loaded and then it is never generated again. This means that if you add an extra "QString aboutText" field to EnginePlugin::Data, it will never get translated.

Solutions to this can be:

1) Around-the-bush and boiler-platey, but doesn't break ABI:

1.1) Create a "class MAIN_EXPORT TextProvider : public QObject { Q_OBJECT; public: virtual QString provide() = 0; }". Place this somewhere in the serverapi in a textprovider.h file.
1.2) In plugins, create [PluginName]AboutProvider : TextProvider classes, override the 'provide()' method and return the tr()'d about text from there.
1.3) In EnginePlugin::Data create a "QSharedPointer<TextProvider> aboutProvider" field.
1.4) In init() in each plugin, assign "new [PluginName]AboutProvider" to the "Data::aboutProvider" field.

2) More straight-to-the-point, but will break ABI. Note that while this is unprofessional, it has also been very common through the course of the development of this program and also all plugins will require update for the next release anyway.

2.1) Add a "virtual QString aboutText();" method to EnginePlugin with default implementation returning an empty "QString()" object.
2.2) Somewhere in Turok 2 Ex plugin create a localized class that inherits from QObject and utilizes Q_OBJECT macro so that tr() can work. You can call this macro "Turok2ExText". This class should work just fine even when declared in the turok2exengineplugin.cpp file.
2.3) In this class add "public static QString about()" method from which you will return the plugin's about text.
2.4) In Turok2ExEnginePlugin override the method "QString aboutText()" method and make it return the value produced by "Turok2ExText::about()".