Bug 110737 - After switching to Kontact Introduction, switching back by clicking on component has no effect
Summary: After switching to Kontact Introduction, switching back by clicking on compon...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kontact
Classification: Applications
Component: summary (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2005-08-14 00:52 UTC by Wouter Coekaerts
Modified: 2008-10-06 11:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Wouter Coekaerts 2005-08-14 00:52:27 UTC
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.4.1, Debian Package 4:3.4.1-1 (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-5)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.11-1-686

If you are in (for example, same for any other component) the Summary, and choose Help, "Kontact Introduction", and you want to go back to the Summary, clicking on Summary in the side bar doesn't do anything. Apparently it thinks that component is still active (and in a way, it still is, but it isn't displayed).
Switching to another component still works (and so does "Skip this introduction")
Comment 1 S. Burmeister 2006-10-28 15:45:31 UTC
confirmed, kde 3.5.5
Comment 2 timocin 2008-10-05 14:14:34 UTC
There is link to skip the introduction. If there would be none link visible this would be a bug. therefore i close it as Invalid.
Comment 3 S. Burmeister 2008-10-05 16:43:55 UTC
I don't think this is invalid. clicking on the component, should show the component. some link in the text is not obvious and the user should not have to read the text, if a click on the component would be enough.
Comment 4 Rafael Fernández López 2008-10-06 11:00:18 UTC
I agree with the invalidness of this bug report. Sven, I found it really really weird that one asks for help and doesn't read what has been just opened...
Comment 5 S. Burmeister 2008-10-06 11:42:27 UTC
If there was a close button, I would agree, yet having a link as close button is something the user does not expect or can spot easily. Hence one would have to read the whole text, which one does not.

It becomes even worse, if the user actually uses the help, since it is opened in a konqueror window, so after the user finished reading the help (in konqueror) why should he have to read on in kontact instead of just clicking on the summary component again.

It's just bad usability and I wonder how anybody can argue against making it easier? It's even inconsistent, with its own assumptions. If links are used as close buttons, i.e. like a webpage, then clicking on the "link" of the component should do what a webpage does, i.e. load the component.