That is not likely to work. :-) Help should be context sensitive, and you
should offer a "Wizard" like process for setting up accounts if you are afraid
that people are getting them wrong.
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Jumping-out-of-lurk-mode-to-admit-that-he-never-reads-docs -- Jess
Jan Schrage wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> from a number of discussions during the last two or three weeks I am
> getting the impression that a number of people don't bother to read the
> docs accompanying gnucash, whatever the reason. Personally I suspect
> that as long as the clicking works people tend to think they're getting
> their accounts right, too, which in general seems not to be the case.
>
> Now my proposal would be to
> 1) rename Help->Help to Help->Documentation in the menus to make it
> clear that this is not a sort of last resort help facility.
> 2) Check if ~/.gnucash exists and if not, pop up a box right at the
> beginning that suggests to people to actually read these docs before
> they start fiddling around.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
> Jan
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