[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11294) Help checkbox in science dialog should be a help button

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11294 >

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <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.

Sounds reasonable.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa