[ge-talk] help SW

[Michael Pfeiffer]

Am 26.01.2007, 15:42 Uhr, schrieb Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc>:
> Please definine "common sense" and "obvious" >:-|

I guess I should calm down the discussion. I entered it here:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:20:04 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:

>> Help should be context sensitive as well as global-there should be a
>> help button on every dialog.
>
> I  like the dragable ?-sign but a shortcut (mouse pointer + '?') should
> be okay too.

There is some room for interpretation.

I interpreted it this way:
The dragable ?-sign would be used to show context sensitive help.
Because it is usually short, it could fit quite well into a popup window,
which can contain multiple lines.
In order to show the popup window, you first have to click the ?-sign,
drag it to the control and release the mouse button. IMO these are
too many steps.
That's way I mentioned tooltips. Here you just move the mouse
over a tool icon and after a short delay the tooltip appears.
So, I more or less :-) suggested to treat context sensitive
help in the same way.

Hope it is clearer now, what I wanted to say in the first place.

- Michael