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Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make "WhatsThis" 100% complete for next release
From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date: 2004-02-14 15:57:02
Message-ID: 402E454E.4020900 () danka ! de
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Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Dominique Devriese writes:
>
>
>>Kurt Pfeifle writes:
>>
>>>But I still wish to convince every developer that the WhatsThis is
>>>a very very usefull feature for users
>
>
>>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.
>
>
>>As suggested elsewhere in this thread, it would imho be more useful
>>as a sort of tooltip.
>
>
> 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.
So that would be a "usability deterioration" in my eyes.
WhatsThis is only there if I ask for it. That's the beauty of it.
I can completely ignore it if I know everything about an app or
dialog. But *if* I need it, it can contain *all* the essential
info to make me go forward without reading the manual (which 98%
of users don't do anyway...)
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?
--> 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
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