On Tuesday 23 of February 2010 15:05:07 Katarina Machalkova wrote: > > Concerning help: > > Currently there is no explicit "help" concept in webYaST. > > One reason is that usability studies > > Which usability studies? [citation needed] > > > showed that users often find "Help" quite unhelpful > > But that's not the fault of the users! Why should the users be punished for > the fact that hackers are unable to write proper help by being given no > help at all? > > There is nothing wrong with the effort to create UI that is simple and > self- explanatory. But - there are concepts you can't do away with and yet > you can't make them self-explanatory no matter how hard you try.
I'm not sure how solution should look like, but here I agree with Katarina. The fact that some help texts are bad does not mean the concept of help is useless in general. And even with most self-explanatory UI we are able to make, we'll run into problems some times. Example: webyast administrator, where UI itself can't explain which 'administrator' is being configured. j -- Jiri Suchomel SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
