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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002218 | MMW v4 | Other | public | 2005-12-05 16:13 | 2008-11-19 17:15 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | reopened | ||
| Fixed in Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0002218: Pressing '?' button should be the same as pressing 'F1' | ||||
| Description | Currently, to access the help tooltips on the configuration screen, the user must: -place the item in question in focus . This often involves _changing_ the configuration (to get focus on a checkbox item, the item must be clicked which changes its state!!) -press F1 This is fairly cumbersome. A simpler solution would be to just show the tooltip on mouseover. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Generally speaking I agree with this (although I'm afraid some users might not like it). However, your description makes me think: Do you recall that there's an easier way than pressing F1? You can click that '?' button and then click on the item where you need help. |
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I personally love the manner in which this has been implemented on Tortoise SVN. I think that it would be great if we could implement this, and that it could lessen our need for online help (and improve usability of the localized versions) if we roll this out to other portions of the UI. It's not critical for this release, but would be worth trying out to get user feedback. |
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Hold mouse over control for 1 second for tooltip help. |
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A couple of issues with the implementation: 1) Tooltip bubbles sometimes appear with text touching the right margin of the bubble. There needs to be a bit more space on the right side. 2) Since bubbles now appear when the cursor moves over items, the '?' in the upper right corner should open the help Window that would open if the user pressed <F1>. 3) In some cases where there's a lot of text, the help needs to stay open longer. Ideally, the length of time the bubble stays open would depend on the amount of text. |
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1 and 3 solved |
