Re: Toolbar changes

>> The Help toolbar button just brings up the generic help.  The 
>> Help menu brings up the Help of the current tab.
> 
> Yes this was deliberate. 

Although you have reasoning behind the change, I don't buy it
for a minute.  Users click help because they are having an
issue now with what they are looking at now.  It is trivial
to navigate from the current help page back to the top/table
of contents.  It is *way* harder to navigate from the top to
where the documentation on each tab is.

> The way the help option works in the bitpim menu is
> not the way (windows) applications work. 

That is because most other developers hate their users, have
help as an after thought, and don't bother having the help
as part of the development process.  Consequently helpids etc
aren't maintained/available and so they are unlikely to be
able to use them anyway.  Copying this idiocy to be consistent
with it is really silly.

> Some apps have an additional button for context sensitive help,

IMHO context sensitive help is only useful if your gui is so 
poorly designed that users can't figure out what bits of it
actually do.

Roger


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