Suggestion: Make "WhatsThis" 100% complete for next release

[Aaron Seigo]

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On February 12, 2004 14:26, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 19:58, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > 100% WhatsThis to me is one of the most important single criteria
> > to declare KDE a "polished" and enterprise-ready desktop. It could
> > be one of the jobs of the Quality Teams to look for gaps and close
> > them.
>
> I think WhatThis isn't as usable as it could be: you need two clicks just
> to notice that there's no help for that specific button. Of course not
> every button needs a help, this makes it more complicated. Wouldn't a
> "hyperlink approach" be more reasonable? By this i mean: next to each
> button, input field etc that has a help text there's a small blue "?" that
> can be clicked. Advantages: it's easy to recognize that there *is* help,
> and it requires only one click.

hrm.... with the downside of it taking up UI space and introducing clutter all 
the time. 

a similar idea is to show WhatsThis on hover-over when activated. this makes 
it more like a(n extended) tooltip that's easily turned on and off.

> Also, it would be cool if the documentation could somehow "include" these
> help texts. Duplication could thus be avoided.

someone actually has/had a good start to this ... the program would take a UI 
file, load it, grab the WhatsThis items, take screenshots and put the thing 
together.. i forget who it was exactly, but i remember them telling me about 
it on IRC...  anyone?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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