[Design] Help menu

Pieter Hartsook hartsook at osafoundation.org
Thu Aug 31 09:51:23 PDT 2006


At this point in time, I would favor "Chandler FAQ". I think our
current target user will understand what FAQ stands for and will be
familiar with the format.

Pieter

On 8/31/06, Grant Baillie <grant at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On 25 Aug, 2006, at 15:04, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
>
> > Even now, we could certainly point folks to the Chandler FAQ on the
> > wiki < http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/
> > ChandlerProductFAQ
> > which also has a link from the nav bar on the Chandler landing page
> > site.
>
> I'd be up for adding that to Chandler. What should the title of the
> menu item say? "Chandler FAQ ..."?
>
> --Grant
>
> PS: I have a slight ulterior motive for doing this: It would allow me
> to move the "About Chandler" menu item to its standard place on the
> Mac, without leaving an empty "Help" menu in the menu bar.
>
> > On 8/25/06, Sheila Mooney <sheila at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> >> Jared,
> >>
> >> We have a couple of stickies currently scheduled for 0.7a6 (probably
> >> 0.7/Beta) which involve overhauling some of the menus. We weren't
> >> thinking of help specifically but I suspect we could add a few
> >> additional menu items that at least point users to info on the wiki,
> >> launch pages etc. All that content won't be ready until very close to
> >> the release since it's very dependent on the branding stuff. Fancy
> >> full-scale help is a post Beta item right at the moment.
> >>
> >> We haven't started to talk about the non-code release items for Beta
> >> yet but I expect to start this up at the beginning of Alpha5.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Sheila
> >>
> >> On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:
> >>
> >> > Are we going to launch a 0.7final with something in the Help menu
> >> > beyond the
> >> > single "About Chandler" popup currently available?
> >> >
> >> > If so, is the target 0.7a4, 0.7a5, or 0.7rc for Help menu
> >> > enhancements?
> >> >
> >> > -- Jared
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