On 18.12.2008, at 02:23, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Gary C Martin > <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Add a standard help icon to every activities activity tab which > brings up a modal sugarised dialogue box with a (scrollable) text > view. > > I have something like this in Finance. It's modeless and it's > context sensitive with regard to the 'screen' of the activity. It > can be toggled by a button in the Activity toolbar. It was really > an experiment to try and help people get through some of the complex > financial terminology, but it needs some more work. > > For more detailed help, I would consider adding a 'More' button to > the help box, that when clicked would extend the box down to cover > the rest of the screen, and show a scrolling rich-text guide to the > activity.
Etoys also has the help icon in its standard tool bar. It is not a context-sensitive help, but a series of quick guides to various basic topics regarding the Etoys UI. > I would add an Option 4: > > 4) Add a help icon to the Activity toolbar which launches Browse, > displaying an HTML guide to the activity. No go. An activity still can not launch another activity directly. Many people have been begging for this for a long time, but the answer is basically "won't fix". The latest cheesy and cumbersome workaround is redirecting the user to the Journal: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4909 I still am gasping at how this ticket could have been marked "fixed". > Either way, it sounds like a lot more work for the translators. Indeed. But we'll have to bite that bullet. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
