[ge-talk] help SW

[Niklas Nisbeth]

Anyways, isn't dragging the question mark to the widget 
counterintuitive? Shirley you'd drag the widget to the question mark... 
or maybe it's just me.

Also, I would like to apologise if I get rude and abrasive during these 
discussions. FWIW. I mean no harm, it's just these damn internets that 
bring out the worst in me...

> 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
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