Juergen Harms a écrit :
An alternative for the practical information of this help information:
Personally, I have made a habit of putting this kind of help into
popup windows that pop up when you "hover" over the question.
- that avoids cluttering the display with information which half of
the users dont need
- but, having things pop up (accidentally) may be quite annoying;
therefore my help popups are controlled by two checkbuttons
(1) enable the popup feature permanently
(2) enable the popup feature once only
(2) turns out to be particular useful
Evidently, to use popups or not is a question of GUI style and must
fit into the overall "look" - but since this issue is being discussed:
yet another 2 cents.
Personally I don't like popups for anything more than a few words, but
I'm not strongly opposed either.
Popups do have a disadvantage if the user, for whatever reason, does not
have a working mouse available. Athough admittedly awkward, one can
navigate the installation process using tab, shift/tab.
As well, what would happen if the user wants to look at the popup info a
second time if (2) is selected ?
Of course, with buttons, and maybe an option "(3) no popups", we could
have the best of both worlds. :)
- André
