On Thursday 28 June 2007 09:56, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Is it possible to get Wizard dialogs without help sub-window? I.e. have full-screen contents?
No. And that's intentional.
Reason 1: My superb new innovative dialogs (TM) are fully self-explanatory so that there is no need for any help text at all.
ROTFL... ;-) No, seriously, I'd still have to see the first configuration dialog that is self-explanatory to EVERY user.
Reason 2: I read in books from usability experts that a UI is very likely bad designed when explanation texts (aka. help texts) are needed.
That's nonsense, plain and simple. If you don't have any clue what that "NIS" thiny is that you could configure here, how do you find out? At the very least, a configuration dialog is to explain WHAT you can configure there and WHY a user would want to do that. It doesn't help when a configuration dialog tells you "Here you can configure CoolThingy" if you don't know what that "CoolThingy" is or why you would want to use it in the first place, what you can do with it, or if it fits your needs. A configuration dialog needs a help text. Always.
Reason 3: My superb new innovative dialogs (TM) are perfectly designed ;-)
...even if they were, can you expect every user to know what it is all about? CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org