From kde-usability Wed Jan 07 23:17:49 2004 From: "Charles de Miramon" Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:17:49 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: kcontrol redux, ad infinitum Message-Id: <3066.134.157.81.176.1073517469.squirrel () webmail ! nerim ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=107351974108609 > o the search should be integrated into the top level of the kcontrol > interface and should be able to display results in the same place that the > panels usually appear. think google search in your web browser meets > kcontrol. the search index parameters need to be extended as well to > include > keyword ranking and relationships to other panels. Yes. I think the model is windows XP where they have blended search in help documents and in metadata associated with panels. But to have that, we need an infrastructure we don't have in KDE : a good text indexer. I've been desperatly hinting any developer I can annoy to work on that but there seems to be little interest. snif. > > o a metadata view should probably be provided alongside each panel that > shows > at a minimum short help (50 words or less), links to extended help and > related panels, and perhaps a shorthand system for simple navigation > An idea I shared with Benoît Walter on a private mail would be to redefine the behavior of "whatis" for KCM panel so that whatis is always active by pressing some mouse button and shows the whatis help text in this small contextual help panel similar to the one in Kexi http://www.koffice.org/kexi/screenshots.php It would be pretty neat. There is an option you don't understand, press the right mouse button on top of it and a contextual help text is shown. If it is done they will be tons of whatis to be written to KDE 4.0 : a good work for the Quality team. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability