Bug 216368 - Help is too overloaded and thus hardly useful
Summary: Help is too overloaded and thus hardly useful
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: krunner
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.8.95
Platform: Compiled Sources Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: usability
: 159743 211258 221376 248198 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-11-27 11:50 UTC by Matthias Fuchs
Modified: 2015-02-04 17:05 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description Matthias Fuchs 2009-11-27 11:50:45 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The help feature that shows all available commands is too overloaded, so often you don't find the command -- BUG 208364 makes that even worse -- you were searching for.

So how to use the plugins should also be described in the information of each plugin (in the settings dialog).
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 01:49:03 UTC
[from bug 221376]

When clicking on the "?" help button in krunner, it shows sort of a list
containing some descriptive text.
That what is displayed, is effectively a list, which has more entries than are
visible, is not easily discoverable and it's look and feel is completely
different from any other list views in KDE applications.
The list not even has a scrollbar so I can easily scroll through its content.
(Instead there is a tiny, nearly non-discoverable arrow button overlapping the
displayed text which needs to be clicked to scroll)

Please provide a consistent user interface throughout all KDE applications for
the sake of usability.
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 01:50:09 UTC
*** Bug 221376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 02:03:57 UTC
*** Bug 248198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 15:52:39 UTC
*** Bug 159743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 15:53:51 UTC
*** Bug 211258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Vishesh Handa 2015-02-04 17:05:48 UTC
Fixed in a horrible way.

We no longer provide the help menu with Plasma 5.