Re: Proposal for Nautilus help display

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:41:19AM +0100, László Kovács wrote:
> > > The Contents tab is for navigation of installed docs and it is exactly
> > > the same as the current content list pane in Nautilus.
> > 
> > One thing I was hoping to add to this is the ability to zoom in and out of
> > the tree.  You can think of this as either "zooming" and "unzooming", or
> > just "pan left" and "pan right".  For example, we might have two little
> > arrows (left and right) (or two magnifying glasses with + and -) at the
> > top or bottom of the pane.  The default view right now is what I would
> > consider all the way zoomed out.  If one has a document or section
> > selected, as they zoom in they lose information about other
> > documents/sections and probably see more subsections of the given
> > document(s).  This follows the way people navigate for documentation,
> > starting at a broad scale and then focussing in on a given part of a given
> > document.
> 
> Right now we display all the sections about a doc as part of the content
> list. I guess this is hardly completely zoomed out. I would imagine this
> like by default the content list contains one entry for each doc and
> then when selecting a doc and zooming in we get the subsections. I see
> two problems in the short term:
> 
> 1. Gnome docs are small so they don't really justify this
> implementation.

The help browser will be used to view more than just Gnome docs. Our
docs are up to 500 pages (printed) in length. You'd better be prepared
to deal with large documents.

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