lör 2001-12-08 klockan 03.56 skrev John Fleck: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:04:27AM +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I was playing around with WindowsXP and tried out there Helpbrowser, it > > was very nice indeed. They have the concept of a "Home" where you can > > click on different topics which takes you to the contents-view. > > > > I'm thinking of implementing this in Yelp, with a Home-view that could > > look something like: > > http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/yelp/help-home.html > > > > Clicking on one of the links will take you to the contents-view: > > http://people.codefactory.se/~micke/yelp/yelp-01.png > > > > What do you all think about this approach? > > > > I like this idea. > > So when you click on, for example, "Core Desktop," would it > > a) go to a separate page with a list of Core Desktop entires, or > b) pop open a submenu on this "page"? > > How are the categories chosen? They should be based on the > ScrollKeeper standard document categories. (That looks like what > you've done, but I want to make sure that is your plan.) Yes, these are the toplevel and first sublevel in the the Scrollkeeper tree. > > The other thing I'd like to be discussed is what to do about man and > > info? The problem is that some users don't know what man/info is, some > > other users might want to browse only man or info, etc. > > > > I think there are three possible solutions: > > > > 1) Make them there own toplevel nodes: (as man in the help-home.html > > view). This is the easiest way (as done in Nautilus today). > > > > 2) Try to merge them into the rest of the documents (don't ask me how). > > This is probably hard to do in a good way. It is also (imho) bad > > because though people don't have to care about what 'man' is the > > documents will not be in the same style as the rest of the documents > > which might be confusing anyway. > > > > 3) Just don't show man/info and only show the documents that are in > > Scrollkeeper. > > > > I'm tempted to say have 3 (no man/info) be the default but offer a > preferences option allowing users to choose 1 (separate man/info > headers) instead. I expect, however, that suggestion would be > immediately slapped down by one of the members of the usability crew, > shouting that we should just pick the best option and go with it > rather than tarting things up with endlessly variable preferences. I like that but as you say, the usability team might not, another solution could be to do 3 and have a GConf setting for 1. Ie. no where in the UI but for those that nows about it they can set it. I know that Galeon has more settings than you can set in the UI. Regards, Mikael Hallendal -- Mikael Hallendal micke codefactory se CodeFactory AB http://www.codefactory.se/ Office: +46 (0)8 587 583 05 Cell: +46 (0)709 718 918
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