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

[Josef Weidendorfer]

Am Saturday 14 February 2004 16:57 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle:
> >>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.

Perhaps they never used "What's this" in Windows (or where they came from), 
too?

> > 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.

Yes ("What's this" is not only for dialogs).
A year ago, I got some remarks of people being totally clueless about 
KCachegrind. So I added "What's this" to every GUI widget. I don't know if 
people are using it, but at least there *is* documentation in KCachegrind 
now, and it is way easier to keep it up to date with code changes, because I 
have the "What's this" text nearside the code.
And I *am* lazy about writing documentation. So the tip "Use What's this!" is 
almost the single thing in KCachegrind's online help (I know this should 
improve!).

> 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?

The help of the "properties" button is wrong: It's about changing options 
regarding the currently selected *printer*, not the print job (I checked 
this).

The main reason for this mail was this: Thank's for the tip, that "What's 
this" is actually useful with kprinter now. I learned some new things about 
it. And I never would have looked up the manual!

Josef

> --> 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