[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11294) Help checkbox in science dialog should be a hel
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<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11294 > Help checkbox in science dialog should be a help button The help checkbox in the is a bit of a usability problem. I haven't seen this paradigm for getting help anywhere else in software and it's confusing for people who haven't grown used to it (which I still haven't yet). Typically, when I select help, I expect help to appear immediately. Currently, if you click the help button, nothing happens until you change one of the dropdown lists. Yet, there is no visual cue as to what I should do next once I click the help checkbox. It would be better to have a button that when pressed would pop up the help for the item selected. Better, the items in the "Goal" dropdown are a superset of those in the "Researching" dropdown, so the button is best placed adjacent to the Goal dropdown, probably after the text that displays the number of steps to get to that goal. There will is no loss of functionality with this more standard layout.Help checkbox in science dialog should be a help button The help checkbox in the is a bit of a usability problem. I haven't seen this paradigm for getting help anywhere else in software and it's confusing for people who haven't grown used to it (which I still haven't yet). Typically, when I select help, I expect help to appear immediately. Currently, if you click the help button, nothing happens until you change one of the dropdown lists. Yet, there is no visual cue as to what I should do next once I click the help checkbox. It would be better to have a button that when pressed would pop up the help for the item selected. Better, the items in the "Goal" dropdown are a superset of those in the "Researching" dropdown, so the button is best placed adjacent to the Goal dropdown, probably after the text that displays the number of steps to get to that goal. There will is no loss of functionality with this more standard layout.
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