Re: [gpm] How could the inhibit applet be made more discoverable?

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 gmail com>]

2007/7/6, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:54 -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > I think a tooltip would work, even though people usually don't use
> > tooltips to convey that kind of information.  How about just adding
> > some text to the dialog box? e.g.
> >
> > Tip: Want to temporarily stop your computer from going into standby
> > mode?  Try the "inhibit applet".  To add it to your taskbar, ...
>
> We need something like this in the help text. Anything in a tip or
> tooltip has to be short and concise, something like "see the help file
> for suspend tips".

Hmm.  "See the help file for more tips"?  I wonder if that'll actually
make more people look at the help file...

How about putting this text, with a hyperlink in it, in the dialog?

    For <a href="the_tips_file.html">tips</a>, see the online help.

Or how about something even shorter?

    <a href="the_tips_file.html">Tips</a>

I don't know if it would be more effective but perhaps it would be.  I
personally am in favor of waiting until it's possible to
programmatically add the inhibit applet to the panel though.

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