Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Link the "help" menu into a simplified Issuezilla interface | ||
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Product: | General | Reporter: | ingenstans |
Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P4 | CC: | issues, oooforum |
Version: | OOo 1.0.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Other | ||
OS: | Other OS | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
ingenstans
2002-07-29 16:29:42 UTC
TM->FT: Another wish for an enhancement ! Please have a look, thanks ! Good idea (repeated for technical reasons): At present the interface to Issuezilla is extremely compicated and off-putting to new users. The web site project is doing much to make it less off-putting, and the QA project is trying to something in that direction. But I suggest that a new entry for "OpenOffice.org on the Web" be added to the help menu of all the main components. Such an entry would look familiar to people used to other apps, and would lead to a three clearly explained choices on a sub-menu: "Suggest an enhancement" "Look for help from other users" "Report a possible bug" "Look for help from others" would lead to a simple search interface for the user list -- all the search boxes I imagine should have Google's simplicity as a model. I know the search is available somewhere on the IZ site. But no one will find who is not really dedicated. It should be made easily accessible, using an url constructed in OO itself. "Report a possible bug" would lead to something like the URL attached to this issue, but with the query fields for operating system, OO version, component, automatically filled out, since the running instnace of the program must have access to that information. If the bug is not found, this info should be used to help construct a bug report. "Suggest an enhancement" should lead to a similar searchbox to the "report possible bug" -- in case someone else has requested it -- and then a wizard-like interface which talks people through the process of joining a project and then suggesting an enhancement. Started Started There has been a flurry of iscussion on the dev@website list, starting here http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=4541 about making a wizard-based set of pages on the web site for epople who need support. I think that ought to be co-ordinated with this issue. In fact I think the two of them ought to be folded together, but, since I'm not coding, my opinion is not much use :-). On the other hand, it is important that the effort is not duplicated, and that the interface for the naive user be as clear as possible; which is rather why I thought this stuff should be reached from the help menu in the program itself. To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements". Already discussed *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 124854 *** |