Restoring the Help Icon in gnome-panel

HC Brugmans hcbrugmans at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 22:30:40 GMT 2006


Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:46 +0000, Yuriy wrote:
>> I think putting the help icon back in the panel by default is going in
>> the right direction, but please, not the "click here to get help,
>> click here not to show this again" bubble notification.  These bubble
>> notifications are THE most annoying "feature" of windows xp sp2.  I
>> hope Ubuntu minimizes the use of popup notifications. 
>>
>> P.S. As a KDE user, I'll add this "panel icons are too
>> small to understand" problem to my mental list of things I hate about gnome ;) 
> 
> I actually don't mind them - it's useful for newbies, and the rest of us
> only have to turn it off once to never see it again.
> 
> Lee
> 

On the gnome-development list there was a story earlier about an 
organisation who ditched Windows for Linux with as one of the main 
reasons the amount of distraction those popups offered.

There should be HIG guidelines for their usage shortly.

-Hidde




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