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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Tip of the day
From:       Benjamin Meyer <benjamin.meyer () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2005-09-07 11:19:51
Message-ID: 200509071319.54982.benjamin.meyer () trolltech ! com
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On Wednesday 07 September 2005 11:56 am, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> 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.

Haha, indeed in KMail's, konsole, etc help menu it is indeed there.  So maybe 
it would be good idea to rename it and remove the tips on startup 
functionality.

-Benjamin Meyer

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