https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13287
Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #11 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2009-11-14 16:02:40 UTC --- Most probably, all gadgets presented in the Preferences should have at least one link, not there for "editing" it but going to a more complete description page (from which you'll find a full description, example snapshots, usage help, versioning info, bugs and discussions for corrections, suggestions for improvements, and a link to its current implementation, which may consist in more than just a single Javascript source, but could also contain images, translable/localizable items...) My feeling is that each one should show a "details" (or just "help"?) link (which itself is localizable), immediately after the summary line, for reaching this Gadget's description page. The current summary line shown in the Gadgets tab after their respective checkbox is clearly not enough (and even the links that may be present sometimes in some summary lines, do not necessary reach this page but can just link to the description of an associated concept, such as a Wikipedia article). inserting the link within the summary line is not the best place for that as it is really confusive. Ideally, there should also be absolutely NO link WITHIN the summary line itself (this is not necessary if we always have a "details/help" link displayed with each gadget), which should be a basic text. The target page or URL for this "help/details" description page can be anywhere (including on another wiki): it should be up to each gadget to specify the location of their Gadget's help page, and each wiki importing the gadget should also have the possibility to customize this default page (for example to provide local help and local discussion pages, even if the local page contains another link to the default Gadget's detail page, which it really should). The same is true for all other localizable summary lines found in the preferences. This is easy to understand, look at most standalone applications for desktops (Windows, Mac, Linux...) that include such a "help" functionality in their GUI (forms and dialogs) for all user selectable items, and sometimes even for some display-only status. The per-item "help" is needed simply for usability and is much better than just a global help page for a full input form. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
