[kde] [Bug 318520] New: "What's it" button is useless in many cases

[Ruslan Kabatsayev]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318520

            Bug ID: 318520
           Summary: "What's it" button is useless in many cases
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.8
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: b7.10110111 at gmail.com

See a use case: suppose a user opens a "Spell Checker - System Settings" window
and wants to understand what a checkbox means, e.g. "Skip run-together words".
The window has a "?" decoration button, which gives the user some hope. Button
is clicked, and when cursor is moved above the item, it appears that no help is
available. Moreover, if you now hover _any_ item in the window, the only one
having some help appears the "Apply" button. So why show the "what's it" button
if it's plain useless?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch System settings
2. Open e.g. Locale -> Spell Checker
3. Try to get some help using "what's it" decoration button
4. See the button is useless
Another example: oxygen-settings has this button, but there's also no help
available.

Another way:
1. Launch system settings ->"Application and System Notifications"
2. Select some event in the list
3. Try "what's it"'ing  "Play a sound".
4. See description of the whole System Notifications control module instead of
element description
Actual Results:  
"What's it" button is useless in most cases when it's really needed

Expected Results:  
Either this button should be completely removed from KDE dialogs, or it should
actually be useful in every dialog where it's present.

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