On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@ gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I see. I strongly prefer using a third tab for the index. > > The index serves the same purpose as the TOC and search. I think it's > most natural to make it available via the same sort of control. > > Also, I think an index tab alongside the TOC and search tabs is more > consistent with other web help formats. Users will expect the index > tab to be there if there is an index at all. > > It might be a useful feature to allow the index tab to be suppressed. > An empty index is such a sad thing. > That's good to hear. Thank you for your feedback. Absolutely, we should make the index-tab optional. You may not know that, search-tab too is made optional. --Kasun > > Good luck! > > Peter > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Peter, > > Thanks for the Compliment. > >>Are you adding a third tab for the index to the left, navigation pane? > > Yes, that's correct. We just needed to know whether it's good to have it > > like that or just a link in the "Contents" tab would be suffice. > > Sorry, we didn't add the tab yet. Please have a look at [0]. It shows the > > index in the "Contents" pane. We are evaluating the effectiveness of > moving > > it to a separate tab. (Please don't mind about the site styling. The > build > > at [0] is from a pre-release webhelp customization.) > > We would like to hear from you about your view about it, and about > WebHelp > > output as a whole if you please. > > Thanks You! > > --Kasun > > > > [0] > http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/gsoc2010/defguideout/content/ix01.html >
