Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-09 Thread Pablo Flores
I like manuq's proposal, although it may be somehow difficult to maintain. A couple of very personal thoughts: * I don't like much having the help icon just as any other icon. Instead, it could be better having an icon in a different color or different size (for instance, the question mark in red

Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Walter, Stephen, Probably the same solution will not work for all our activities. TurtleArt and Etoys are complete environments, probably with the more complex and powerful UI. Another possible solution would be to

[IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
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

Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: 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. Not

Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Walter, Stephen, Probably the same solution will not work for all our activities. TurtleArt and Etoys are complete environments, probably with the more complex and powerful UI. May be a option, is show contextualized help in the widget, for example in TurtleArt, show help related to the visible

Re: [IAEP] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Edward Mokurai Cherlin
On Wed, March 7, 2012 7:37 am, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: 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. I yield to nobody in my