On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:16:55 +0100, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > In endeavouring to persuade Seamonkey 2.2 to behave more > as I would wish (and as earlier versions always did), > I find that I am making far more use than normal of > > about:config > > What makes this so intensely frustrating is that there is > no hyperhelp associated with the keys, and I have to > launch a new browser session and use Google in order > to find the meaning of the various keys and their values. > > Is there any obvious reason why the "about:config" interface > cannot/does not support hyperlinks to the relevant documentation, > rather than requiring the user to search for it in hyperspace ?
Most obvious reason: SeaMonkey is a totally volunteer driven community project. There are no paid developers. To do this you would need. 1. Sufficient number of volunteers with the free time and skills to do this. 2. Get these volunteers to spend an indeterminate number of man hours researching and documenting each of several thousand preferences 3. Compile the information into an indexed and searchable format. 4. Write some code to the about:config screen to link each entry to the relevant documentation. ..... Alternatively find someone who has already done all that. <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whats-that-preference/> Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. n _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
