[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Search: Add help buttons to the dialogs (#1169)

Matthew Brush notifications at xxxxx
Tue Aug 9 23:42:43 UTC 2016


> but we don't have a simple and easy way to look it up

I do like context-dependent help, I just think putting buttons everywhere to access it is a bad idea. Better would be if whichever dialog/window/etc has focus <kbd>F1</kbd> opens the help file at the right place.

> IMO, if it wasn't for the Replace dialog fattiness we probably wouldn't really be discussing about it, would we? :)

I would've still mentioned it as I think it's too cluttered adding big buttons for something used so rarely.

An alternative that wouldn't clutter the dialogs so much would be to use a link label in another location, rather than a help button. For the Build Commands dialog it could replace the less than helpful existing label too. It might look kind of ugly and scattered though, not sure without seeing it.

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