> On May 26, 2016, 12:12 a.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > As Kai said: Activating the help cursor by pressing F1 (and actually > > putting useful help behind it!) would be a great thing to have from a > > user's perspective. > > Contextual help would be much more helpful than a plain old help text, and > > changing the cursor to the help cursor would be a far less annoying > > unintended action than opening the help browser. > > > > The question is: Do we think there is a chance to get developers to > > actually put useful contextual help in their UIs in the the future, or will > > it likely just be doing nothing in the vast majority of apps? > > David Edmundson wrote: > You've just described "what's this" text that we currently have. > You sometimes see a ? in the window manager decoration, for example in > systemsettings. > > So it's not a quesion of guessing, you can see how widely unused it is > right now.
Sorry, I should have expressed myself more clearly. I knew full well what I'd described, and I knew full well that it was hardly used. The question was rather "Could we _make_ developers use it more consistently if we officially made it the primary help system?" - Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128019/#review95801 ----------------------------------------------------------- On May 25, 2016, 11:01 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128019/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated May 25, 2016, 11:01 p.m.) > > > Review request for KDE Frameworks and KDE Usability. > > > Repository: kconfig > > > Description > ------- > > F1 is too important and too easy to trigger for something like Help, that be > honest you don't need a shortcut for (since you don't invoke Help that often). > > > Diffs > ----- > > src/gui/kstandardshortcut.cpp 6be6309 > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128019/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Albert Astals Cid > >
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