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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: etatoby on April 10, 2006, 11:21:54 PM

Title: tooltips for cryptic features
Post by: etatoby on April 10, 2006, 11:21:54 PM

here's a simple usability suggestion

put a tooltip on every obscure piece of data shown in aMule, to explain what it means, especially in most often used windows

for example I'd put a legend on the sources column (in transfers, search, and others) to explain what the hell "12/14 (34 #9 2/21%)" means

Title: Re: tooltips for cryptic features
Post by: Kry on April 11, 2006, 01:37:18 AM

You're welcome to do that tedious work :P

Title: Re: tooltips for cryptic features
Post by: leuk_he on April 11, 2006, 09:49:44 AM

I once saw a better suggestion: link those entries to a wiki,(like the closed source trillian chat client)  and let some user type in the help.

But then you have the chicken and the egg problem. What first: the wiki or the tooltips?  :D

Title: Re: tooltips for cryptic features
Post by: Kry on April 11, 2006, 01:32:38 PM

click F1, it opens the wiki :P

Title: Re: tooltips for cryptic features
Post by: leuk_he on April 11, 2006, 02:43:59 PM

I know. (:baby: , i pressed F1 a lot!)

Tooltipping saves the pressing of f1 (and war and tear on the f1)  and firing of an external browser.

But this looks really nice:
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/productivity/trillian-integrates-instant-wikipedia-lookup-031572.php


(If i am finished up with the morph i might give you a patch for amule, But i haven't compile amule lately)