GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 212389
Help buttons should be put (back) into dialogs
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:27:16 UTC
These were removed for Evo 1.0 but should go in for 1.1.
Setting to 1.1.
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What work will this require from the docs side of things? Will these buttons just be links to the main help docs?
Yes.
Ettore: this hardly can be a 1.4 critical goal. 1.6 at best.
Downing to major
Are we even doing this for 2.0?
It should be possible to have a button link to a particular section of the manual, and if we can do this for one or more dialogs I'd like to see it done. If there's not room or time, then we can definitely skip it-- it should be relatively easy to do, although it might be a hassle to revise the UI to fit in a (?) button.
Moving all 1.5.3 reports to 1.5.4 milestone. Sorry for the spam.
review dialogs that need help button
*** bug 261260 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The Event/Task/Contact editor dialogs all have Help buttons now in them. Bumping this to 2.3 for review of other dialogs in Evolution that could use the Help button.
reassigning to harish... mind the UI freeze :-)
Apologies for any spam... cc'ing usability-maint on all Evolution usability bugs. Filter on EVO-USABILITY-SPAM to ignore.
retargetting to 2.5
Assigning it to Srinivasa Ragavan for a review of other dialogs.
Does this cover the lack of a Help button in the First-Run Assistant?
As per the HIG, assistants shouldn't have (or require) a Help button: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-assistant.html
removing old target milestone.
It was already a PITA to find all help buttons used in Evolution, as helper functions are not consistently used. There is e_display_help() but often it is not used, so I also had to grep for "help_section". Everything should use e_display_help(). It would be very welcome to have some skeleton code to reuse posted here so this could theoretically picked up and worked on by non-technical people.
*** Bug 244875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Current (3.19.91) status: Event/Memo/Task editor - has Help->Help menu Contact Editor - has a button at the bottom-left Edit->Preferences - has a button at the bottom-left, sensitive to selected parts of the dialog No Help at: Contact List Editor Mail Account wizard/editor Edit->Message filters (neither in the rule editor) Edit->Search folders Edit->Plugins Message->Add note/Edit note Folder->Subscriptions Search->Advanced search Search->Edit saved searches I do not have much overview on the sections provided in the Help, neither their names. If you can provide me with the help section names for these windows, then I can add buttons/menus there.
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