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To: craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11294) Help checkbox in science dialog should be a help button
From: "Frédéric Brière" <fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:03:34 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxx 
<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11294 >

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:15:50PM -0800, craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Actually, it's rather similar to the "What's this?" toolbar button
that's found in many applications -- with the main difference that
"What's this?" refers to containers, not contents.  And I agree that the
use of a checkbox is quite confusing at first (and sometimes annoying
after).


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