Re: DevHelp usability

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> I wrote this mail responding to reaction for my suggestion about how to
> make DevHelp more usable for keyboard users. 
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118358
>
> Because there was no significant usability-wise progress in DevHelp
> since 2003, I'll try to give some reasoning behind why and how I think
> it may (and should) be improved.

...

> 6. Summary
>
> To sum things up, all the proposed solutions have a potential to make
> DevHelp more friendly to keyboard-oriented users in numerous ways:
>
> - reducing unnecessary hand movement, by making the most used
> functionality available instantly at cost of functionality used less
> often or not at all
> - keeping things simple and internally consistent (just a few very
> standard keys: arrows, Enter, Esc and seldom Ctrl+Tab and Alt with
> arrows, to access the WHOLE existing functionality!)
> - allowing keyboard-only operation
>
> It doesn't solve the already existing problems of long topics and
> navigating the document history. But it's a consistent base to build upon.
>
> Comments?

I was trying to radically improve devhelp, but it bombs out in gdb;)