To add a "Help" menu item with links to instructions and revision info
Bug #1370379 reported by
Chih-Hsyuan Ho
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkbox GUI (Legacy) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
* Use case:
1. Having a "Help" menu item as a permanent place in the tool UI that links to the corresponding instructions (online or static versions that were installed with the tool) is nice for quick reference.
2. A "About" item in the Help menu that tells users instantly what revision of the tool they are using can be very convenient.
Revision history for this message
| Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in plainbox: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in checkbox-gui: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in checkbox-ng: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in checkbox-gui: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
| Changed in checkbox-ng: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in plainbox: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in checkbox-ng: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| no longer affects: | plainbox |
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Ah, what an interesting request :)
So far our UIs have no menus because we've felt they don't help the workflow, since it all happens in a single window. We could look at implementing some sort of menu, but we also need to consider how it would work on checkbox-touch and maybe under CLI (CLI is maybe easier as a key could invoke help and another show client information).
An interesting part of this is that we'll need to expose this information via the dbus interface for GUI use. I think CLI and checkbox-touch can access the Python API more directly and could get this information in some other way.