[josm-dev] Remove internal help browser?

[Ľubomír Varga]

Hi,

I personally dont like external browsers much. Many times I dont have control, 
which browser is used. If there will be move to external browser, please try 
it make somehow configurable, that after click on link button it will show 
panel with more options about what browser use.

I have firefox with many, many, opened tabs and I lunch it only when I know 
that I will need to browse more than one page :-) In other cases I use 
konqueror. It ends up in 10 opened konquerors with 2 or 3 tabs over all 
desktops, but it have smaler footprint in memory and also in cpu ussage 
compared to one firefox app with ~80 tabs opened.

PS: probably Iam very unstandard user, so do not be very burdened by request 
in this mail.

On Friday 09 October 2009 21:44:40 Sebastian Klein wrote:
> Karl Guggisberg wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I plan to remove JOSMs internal help browser and to always delegate to
>  > an external browser, for two reasons:
>
> Good idea.
>
> Having an internal browser for help seems quite strange and
> old-fashioned to me.
>
> Also, the current version is far from usable.
>
> Nowadays, if there is some problem, you open a browser and google it.
> If it isn't answered in some forum immediately, you will at least find
> the documentation and try to resolve it there.
>
> Regarding this F1 thing - no one will get it. Best you can do is put
> some big inviting help button on the dialog that might need explanation.
> (But only if there is some documentation available.) It's quite
> pointless to press F1 and get an empty page each time.
>
> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>  > Yes. External browsers have too many drawbacks regarding visibility and
>  > launching. If you do not like the internal one, then make it
>
> configurable
>
>  > to disable it.
>
> So many applications do this browser launch thing, it can't be that awful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian
>
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