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

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Dominique Devriese wrote:

> Dominique Devriese writes:
> 
> 
>>Kurt Pfeifle writes:
>>
>>>But I still wish to convince every developer that the WhatsThis is
>>>a very very usefull feature for users
> 
> 
>>Try convincing me: I have personally watched tens of new KDE users,
>>and none of them have ever managed to discover the what's this
>>stuff.
> 
> 
>>As suggested elsewhere in this thread, it would imho be more useful
>>as a sort of tooltip.
> 
> 
> Or, for another point, as text that is placed in the widget itself.
> 

But this additional text will be there all the time, no? Even if I
don't need it? It would add up to clutter the UI.

So that would be a "usability deterioration" in my eyes.

WhatsThis is only there if I ask for it. That's the beauty of it.
I can completely ignore it if I know everything about an app or
dialog. But *if* I need it, it can contain *all* the essential
info to make me go forward without reading the manual (which 98%
of users don't do anyway...)

Please tell me one thing. The 3.2 kprinter dialog now has more
WhatsThis items than before (but not yet 100% complete). Please
take 5 minutes and have a look:

--> are they too verbose?
--> are there incomprehensible ones included?
--> could you transport the same level of info and usage hints
     by placing other text (which would have to be much shorter)
     directly into the widgets?

> cheers
> domi
> 

Cheers,
Kurt