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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Tip of the day
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-09-07 9:56:36
Message-ID: 200509071156.36959.gassauer () kde ! org
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Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2005 10:06 schrieb Benjamin Meyer:
> I am curious if anyone knows of a study showing if the tip of the day
> dialog box is of any real value.  Logically when someone starts an
> application they want to do some task, not learn more about it.  Only later
> when they are having trouble they launch help and browse around, they don't
> want to have to restart the application just to view the tips.  Right?
>
> I know that even myself have on occasion read through them, but I have also
> read through some of the help docs.  Maybe that would be a better place to
> put the information.
>
> The reason I bring this up now is that we make changes like this for KDE4.
>
> -Benjamin Meyer

IMHO in the Help menu it should say "useful tips", a popup of a (different) 
message every day is not usefull for users. many even dare to uncheck the 
"show Tips at startup", but they do not read and propable need it.


-- 
cu
Ferdinand 
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