[dev] Hiding Help entries

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting John Morrissey <jwm at horde.net>:
>
> > Any further thoughts on this, anyone? For now, I've commented out the
> > relevant portions of help.xml in my local installations.
> >
> > I understand Jan's point about the overhead of having loaded
> configuration
> > and prefs to display help, but something nags at me that it's really
> > confusing for users to see things in Help, but not be able to find them
> in
> > the UI.
>
> I agree. Also, we already load session data and preferences to display
> help,
> because we load the correct theme. So I'd be all in favor of a reasonably
> efficient way of marking help entries as dependant on a configuration
> setting.

Ah, right, I missed that. That makes my former comment bogus.

> (I very much think that help entries that are dependant on a preference
> should
> *not* be hidden, but instead explicitly mention how to turn the relevant
> preference on/off.)

Agreed, but to make it clear: *locked* preferences should of course be
hidden.

Jan.

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