[gnome-love] Re: [Nautilus-list] GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

GTK2 has something like this.

On 27 May 2001 11:18:37 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> How about some panel app or menu that displays it's self as a "What does
> this do" button (shortend of course) and when the user clicks on it the
> cursor turns to a question mark and then they can point at any feature
> in GNOME and have a popup help explaining how to turn on/off and what it
> does.
>
>
> On 25 May 2001 16:28:52 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > Sander Vesik wrote:
> >
> > > I really disagree here - just because standard gnome installation is
> > > horribly unuasble when it comes to multiple desktops or in fact not
> > > showing the user any clue these were supported at all.
> >
> > You're right there-- hiding a feature completely is just as bad as
> > confusing people by pushing functionality in their faces that they'll
> > never use.  One of the skills of user itnerface design is to find the
> > correct balance, to make advanced features discoverable (relative to how
> > "advanced" they really are), but not so intrusive that they get in the
> > way if you don't want to know about them.
>
>
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