Thanks Gonzalo for pushing the envelope below! REMINDER: On Apr 3-5 (video
tutorials presprint) and Apr 6-10 (docs sprints) we hope to contribute too
where we can -- particularly updating the Help Activity and its associated
http://laptop.org/manual -- thanks to Seth Woodworth, Caryl Bigenho & All:
http://j.mp/xomanual
From: Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]>
>To: Sugar-dev Devel <[email protected]>; iaep
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:37 AM
>Subject: [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities
>
>
>We receive many times request about adding help in the activities,
>and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach,
>not all the people learn in the same way,
>and there are people who prefer a little guidance.
>
>For the development we need a simple api, and easy i18n,
>and a non obtrusive experience for the user.
>
>Inspired by the DescriptionItem, I was experimenting with a widget to add
>simple help to activities.
>This is not:
>* A manual
>* Lessons
>* Tips
>Is a short startup help for the activity.
>
>Use only text and the icons already used by the activity.
>
>A example can be seen here:
>http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/images/simple_graph_help.png
>
>In the activity we only need do:
>
> helpitem = HelpButton()
> toolbar.insert(helpitem, -1)
> helpitem.show()
> helpitem.add_section(_('Basic usage'))
> helpitem.add_paragraph(_('First you need add data to create the graphic'))
> helpitem.add_paragraph(_('You can add data with this button'),
> 'row-insert')
> helpitem.add_paragraph(_('...or remove data with this button'),
> 'row-remove')
> helpitem.add_paragraph(_('To change the graphic title, just change the
>activity title'))
>....
>
>This proposal is late for sugar 0.96, but may be we can try it in one or two
>activities,
>and start thinking about this topic.
>I really like the help in the Implode activity, but have the following
>problems:
>* I don't know if apply to other type of activities.
>* Is modal
>* need a lot of code to implement it.
>
>Comments?
>
>Gonzalo
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