[Sugar-devel] Just learned about Mistery Meat Navigation

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 29.03.2012, at 14:14, Carl Angiolillo wrote:

> > explicit help button that toggles an overlay with help bubbles would be best.
> 
> D'oh, good call, totally missed help overlay.
> 
> > Interesting, this is what Gary pointed in the "Simple help system for Sugar" thread.
> 
> Forgive a stupid question, but I'm not sure where to find the existing Sugar help designs to get context. The sugar labs wiki?
> 

3 weeks ago on this list:

	http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg13364.html

Would be good to consolidate the discussion into a wiki page though, agreed.

- Bert -

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:43, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> >
> > On 27.03.2012, at 15:24, Manuel Quiñones wrote:
> >
> > > El día 27 de marzo de 2012 08:04, Bert Freudenberg
> > > <bert at freudenbergs.de> escribió:
> > >> IMHO, an explicit help button that toggles an overlay with help bubbles would be best. Takes up less space than actual labels. Here's an example:
> > >>
> > >>        http://thedigitalstory.com/2012/03/5_tips_for_working_w.html
> > >
> > > Interesting, this is what Gary pointed in the "Simple help system for Sugar" thread.
> >
> >
> > Yes, that, and also combined with your idea of an overlayed help window.
> >
> > Tapping the help button brings up the bubbles with a short description. But some bubbles also link to a more complete help widget. I'm referring to this screenshot:
> >
> >        http://thedigitalstory.com/2012/03/08/iPhoto_for_iPad.png
> >
> > Tapping the arrow on the right of these bubbles opens a Help window in the middle of the screen, and jumps to the relevant page. It's organized hierarchically, and articles have hyperlinks to related topics. Plus there's full text search.
> >
> > - Bert -
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