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

[Bo Thorsen]

On Friday 13 February 2004 12:33, Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau wrote:
> Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2004 08:13 schrieb Brad Hards:
> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:12 am, Friedrich W. H.  Kossebau wrote:
> > > Never have come to a dialog totally unclear to you? Never
> > > experienced how tiresome it is to request the meaning of all
> > > entries? The less clicks the better I want to tell you.
> >
> > <layout description snipped>
> > You are confusing two different issues - KDE applications having the
> > text, and how it is displayed under a particular theme.
>
> ???
> Perhaps my english is that bad so you could not understand what I
> meant. Sorry. No, I was speaking about dialogs for things one has no
> real clue of. Imagine someone who has no idea of fonts and being
> confronted with the fontsdialog. He should be able to see _all_ the
> whatsthis texts _together_, not having to do all the move and click for
> each single one.
> More understandable? :)

The words, yes. The idea, no :-)

What you are describing is a help page. There is already a system for 
that, you know?

Don't abuse the what's this for a help system.

Bo.
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