Explanatory guide text in Conductor?

Aaron Weitekamp aweiteka at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 12:55:15 UTC 2012


On 08/08/2012 07:42 PM, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matt Wagner" <matt.wagner at redhat.com>
>> To: aeolus-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:01:02 PM
>> Subject: Explanatory guide text in Conductor?
>>
>> Ignoring my mediocre example text and the fact that it's just an
>> unstyled paragraph tag, I wonder what people think about this general
>> concept. Would it be helpful? Or in an app like ours, do we expect
>> the
>> user to know what they're doing? (Unlike, say, sharing a photo with
>> some
>> friends, managing cloud deployments isn't necessarily you should
>> learn
>> on the fly.)
>>
>> -- Matt
>>
>
> I like this idea, but in my opinion it should be generalized into a glossary/index of help items and topics; and an API that lets us create help links/popups that lead into the glossary.  Popups will help reduce clutter for expert users, and an overall help glossary will give a starting place for new users that might be confused.
>
> Mainn
>
The great thing is, Katello already has this. See attached screenshot. 
This is a great move in the direction of sharing UI patterns between 
projects. Matt, your mock-up is spot-on.

-Aaron
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