Re: new help browser
- From: Matthew Guenther <mguenthe attcanada ca>
- To: Karl Eichwalder <ke gnu franken de>
- Cc: GNOME Doc List <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: new help browser
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 23:10:44 -0700
On May 31 2000 Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>
> Configurable? Hopefully. IMO, (navigation) trees suck in general.
> Either they take much too much horizontal space or fonts used are too
> small or important parts of the tree are hidden (trimmed at the right
> side, branches left indented, scroll bars added, ...).
>
> Horizontal space on my screen is expensive. I'd like to see the help
> browser side by side with my application! Running an application like
> the help browser "full screen" is not an option (22" minitors are not
> the standard).
>
I would just like to voice my support of this concept. I'm writing this on a
laptop with a 12.1" 800 x 600 screen, and things are already at the edge of
being too large (Especially things like gmc). If there is a navigation tree, it
should not be essential to the operation of the help browser.
MBG
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