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Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1
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Jeff Teunissen |
Subject: |
Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1 |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 03:31:49 -0500 |
ibotty wrote:
> > Ah ! in fact I was right then .. ;-) you get the whole help file,
> > you're juste poited to the right section. Quite different than tooltip
> > then
>
> sorry, but i understand context sensitive help differently.
In other words, you only know one way to do it and that is obviously the
right way because it's the only way you know.
> this kind of help is in my understanding a (huge) tooltip.
> thats how at least kde and windoze understand it too.
KDE and Windows are wrong in lots of ways. :)
> i think we shouldnt differ from both.
>
> i just checked my kde.
> in kde you have a extra window hint for context help.
> you just click it, then the view, and it displays a tooltip.
> (if not in kwin, open e.g. kcontrol and click help->"whats this?" in the
> menu, you get the same.)
This is one of those brain-damaged things that are showing up in the new
KDE and GNOME desktops. It's stupid in Windows, and it's no less stupid in
KDE/GNOME - they're just aping Windows's interfaces without understanding
them.
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- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, (continued)
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Andreas Heppel, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Tobias, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Andreas Heppel, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Nicolas Roard, 2003/01/22
- ui elements for user help, Tobias, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Andreas Heppel, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Martin Brecher, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1,
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- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Björn Giesler, 2003/01/22
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Nicolas Roard, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Björn Giesler, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Andreas Heppel, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Nicolas Roard, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Andreas Heppel, 2003/01/21
- Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, Nicolas Roard, 2003/01/21
Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1, BALATON Zoltan, 2003/01/22