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Bug 96350 - launchers shouldn't have panel help in their context menu's
launchers shouldn't have panel help in their context menu's
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 96524 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 115436
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-21 00:49 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-10-21 00:49:51 UTC 
launchers shouldn't have panel help in their context menu's. 

1. This breaks the object metaphor of context menus 

2. If you have a launcher that includes it own help item you end up having
two help entries in the menu which is pretty confusing.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2002-10-22 18:12:22 UTC 
*** Bug 96524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2002-11-07 15:38:27 UTC 
usability guys: do you all agree on this ? This could be covered in UI
review.
Comment 3 Mark Finlay 2002-11-20 20:34:42 UTC 
Adding to the ui-review. If it should be here a usibility person can
remove it.
Comment 4 Mark Finlay 2002-11-20 20:50:23 UTC 
Sorry, I ment should not be here. This thing needs an edit button.

PS. I'm adding this after a discussion on IRC on #ui-review
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2002-11-21 13:20:28 UTC 
Yes, I think there's another bug open on this somewhere as well. 
Apart from anything else, I think we're mostly agreed that nobody
wants Help on an application before they've opened it :)
Comment 6 Mark McLoughlin 2003-06-18 12:12:10 UTC 
Calum, Dave: you're contradicting each other here. Dave wants to get
rid of "Help" ... Calum wants to get rid of "Help on X"
Comment 7 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-06-18 13:45:45 UTC 
I wish i had a copy of the panel in front of me. Do panel applets also
have two help menus too (/me forgets)? If this only applies to app
launchers than I would go with calum on it. He's usually right :) I
guess in that context, help on using launchers is probably more useful
than application help.
Comment 8 Mark McLoughlin 2003-06-19 08:29:32 UTC 
Okay, I've gone ahead with removing panel help:

2003-06-19  Mark McLoughlin  <mark@skynet.ie>
                                                                     
                                                       
        Remove panel help from launcher's context menus.
        Fixes bug #96350.
                                                                     
                                                       
        * applet.c: (applet_callback_callback): don't
        add help callback.
                                                                     
                                                       
        * launcher.c: (load_launcher_applet): don't handle
        help callback.