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etatoby

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tooltips for cryptic features
« 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
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Re: tooltips for cryptic features
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2006, 01:37:18 AM »

You're welcome to do that tedious work :P
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Re: tooltips for cryptic features
« Reply #2 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
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Re: tooltips for cryptic features
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2006, 01:32:38 PM »

click F1, it opens the wiki :P
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Re: tooltips for cryptic features
« Reply #4 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)
« Last Edit: April 11, 2006, 02:46:27 PM by leuk_he »
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