From kde-usability  Wed Sep 14 14:08:37 2005
From: Zak Jensen <coolguyzak () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:08:37 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Tip of the day
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Hmm... I know this is not an implementation forum, per se... but I was
wondering what some of the developers' opinions are concerning how to
implement the KTips "spying" mechanism which has been discussed
several times on this thread. Turns out there's a KDE-Quickie about
"Signal Spying" on QT 4.0:

http://qt4.digitalfanatics.org/articles/signalspy.html

It seems that this does exactly what we have been discussing. Has
there been any experimentation with this functionality in QT4? How
much does it bog down the system/etc? (Should I post this to a
different list?)

- Zak.


On 9/14/05, Zak Jensen <coolguyzak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/05, Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 7 September 2005 10:06, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > > I am curious if anyone knows of a study showing if the tip of the day
> > > dialog box is of any real value.
> >
> > I'll just bring up a reply I posted to an earlier similar question.
> >
> > Please look at the IntelliJ IDEA application that has some really good
> > ideas.
> >
> > * it makes an effort to repeat the same tip at regular intervals (think
> > every 3th time) for a number or times so you can learn it better.
> 
> As long as there is a tracking interface set up, it would probably be
> better to disable the tip after the program determines that they are
> using the feature... or after it has gone for a suitable length of
> time after it was first displayed. (For instance, disable the tip for
> a week after it was ignored for a few days, or something of that
> nature).
> 
> This will allow the tips displayed to "cycle", and thus it will grab
> the user's attention. If you display the same tips over and over...
> they'll completely ignore it.
> 
> > * it only shows tips on features you have not actively started using.  We
> > could do tracking which kaction is executed and not provide tips on those
> > that have seen usage, for example. (Since there is nothing more silly
> > then a user mentally answering 'yes I do' on the 'did you know?'
> > question :)
> 
> I disagree with this. It should also show better ways of doing what
> you do often, if such a thing is available.
> 
> > * the tips are shown on long-showing dialogs.  Progress dialogs,
> > specifically.  The dialog starts normally and when the dialog is on for a
> > couple of seconds and determines it will be showing progress for some
> > time more, it expands and shows the tip.  With a checkbox 'keep this tip
> > showing after the progress dialog closes'.
> 
> Interesting idea. If I can get my ktips revamp going for my senior
> design project, I'll try incorporating this into it as well.
> 
> > * No 'don't show again' checkbox
> > * No tip at startup.
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Zander
> >
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