A small help link in every interactive widget

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It might be a help to users if there was a small help link (maybe a
question mark icon, or a small, medium grey, text link saying "help") on
every widget, that when clicked would pop up a concise help message. 

This message would be most useful if it was different for each kind of
widget and provided links to more comprehensive documentation.

Alternatively, rather than having a single popup, multiple small popups
could appear, labelling each element of the widget with an appropriate
message[1].

Ideally the help link could be disabled by users.

[1] Comment 7 on issue 109 might be relevant here.
[2] implementing this would be much easier if we could had a better
javascript library, as described in issue 122.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by johannes...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2008 at 9:53

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This sounds like a very good idea. However, there should also be a way to turn 
it off
for more advanced users. (and back on for demos...)

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2008 at 11:22

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The popup should be different when a "display" security mode is selected, 
alerting
the user that no interactivity is possible.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 12:05

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So, should we try to get this into 1.0? I think so - it will make Crunchy that 
bit
more "usable" for novices.

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 12:22

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Yes, I think we should get this into 1.0.  To do it properly though, we'd 
probably
need to take care of issue 122.

I think we should have one, perhaps two "trial releases" before 1.0.  The next 
one
could be 0.9.9.3.  This would be to work all the bugs out.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 12:28

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OK, I'm going to create a branch to experiment with this and issue 122. I don't 
want
to try and implement issue 122 in the trunk because it will likely cause lots 
ad lots
of bugs.

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2008 at 9:14

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This is implemented.  The UI could possibly be improved, but I'm changing the 
status
to "fixed" nonetheless given no concrete suggestion for improvements.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2008 at 6:23

• Changed state: Fixed