Re: Help buttons

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 11 Oct 2006, at 11:10, Johannes Schmid wrote:

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> Hi all!
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> I am not sure this is the right place to ask, but I hope though.
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> Regarding this bug (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi? 
> id=349357) we
> have the problem how help buttons in dialogs are supposed to work.  
> I did
> not find anything about it in the HIG guidelines but maybe I missed  
> it:
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> - - Should the dialog be kept shown if the user clicks the help button

Yes.

> - - Is there a standard way to handle those button in Gtk/Gnome?  
> (this is
> more a GTK question)

Very likely, but don't ask me what :)  Just look at the code for some  
other dialogs that implement it, I guess.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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