Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> I'd like to propose we push for better help menus and help buttons
> in 3.4. This is something I've talked about for about two years now.
> It's all part of the "more accessible help" big picture that we get
> with Mallard.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/HelpMenus
>

Thanks for writing this down.

I will say that there is some inherent tension between this feature and
the 'Application Menus' feature, which is about simplifying menubars
and moving the remaining items to the appmenu in the shell.

Can't have smart help search in the menus if you don't have menus anymore...

So maybe we need to figure out how we can provide better help in
applications that don't have menus in their window - current examples
are gnome-contacts and gnome-documents. Pop up a help search window
when the user hits '?' ? Maybe...

Other ideas ?