From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 14:31:00 EDT
Dom
context sensitive help will be a great feature but until it works you have
robbed the keybinding from the Help Manual
I cannot remember what programs that have both context sensitve help and a
proper manual use for keybindings but i think that until context help
works you should use Shift+F1 and leave F1 to active the Help Manual as it
currently does. (i think KDE apps use F1 and Shift+F1, i would have to
look up the KDE and Gnome interface guidelines to be sure).
Then later when context sensitive help has sufficient documentation and
hooks to the right place in the documentation you could swop so that F1
gave help for the current context and Shift+F1 gives the manual.
ive got a cold and my brain is turing to mush so i wont try and make my
point any clearer
Later
Alan
On 22 May 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Date: 22 May 2002 13:51:37 -0400
> From: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
> To: AbiWord Developer List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Commit: beginning of dialog help system
>
> Dialogs now have one more attribute - a help url. No dialogs currently
> use this, and it's not properly localized. I'll fix those points up
> shortly.
>
> The idea is that by our next release, if a user presses F1 over a
> dialog, a suitable help file will pop up in a browser. The GTK+2.0 port
> will do this trivially through some new functions.
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