[josm-dev] Remove internal help browser?

[Karl Guggisberg]

> 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.
I already started to do that.

See the new help aware option pane 
 
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/He
lpAwareOptionPane.java

and two examples I've migrated
  http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Concepts/Conflict

I plan to do the same thing in the message dialog for error messages created
by the server, see 
  http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2882


Regards
Karl 

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Von: josm-dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:josm-dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org] Im Auftrag von Sebastian Klein
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 21:45
An: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
Betreff: Re: [josm-dev] Remove internal help browser?

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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