[206] in Athena User Interface
Re: Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 21 09:23:05 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 21 Jun 2000 09:22:55 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:12:47 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hd7lbw4ls.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I personally like hints, at least for programs that I use a lot which
> have a large number of features. I don't read manuals, and so I often
> miss things that might be useful to me. For example, when dragging
> items around on the panel, holding down shift, control or alt gets you
> different dragging behavior. I learned this from the tips.
I agree. Tips should never be the sole form of documentation; the
documentation should be complete even if the tips are thrown out. But
tips are still quite useful (especially to naive users) and we should
have them if the doc writers are willing to come up with them.
(Of course, the tips should have the little "don't show me any more
tips" flag.)
