Bug 2487 - Better approach to Settings help
: Better approach to Settings help
Status: REOPENED
Product: Logitech Media Server
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Interface
: 6.5b1
: PC All
: -- enhancement (vote)
: Future
Assigned To: Unassigned bug - please assign me!
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Reported: 2005-11-03 22:12 UTC by Jim McAtee
Modified: 2011-11-06 23:23 UTC (History)
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Description Jim McAtee 2005-11-03 22:12:06 UTC
The current approach to server and player settings pages is overly verbose, 
making the pages difficult to navigate and often difficult to find a simple 
setting, and yet insufficiently instructive in the use of many of the settings, 
and their implications.

Place a 'Help' link next to most settings (a '?' icon works well).  When 
clicked, open a small window with with detailed help for each of the settings.  
There's almost no limit to the amount of help text that can then be displayed, 
without further cluttering up the setting pages themselves.  You can even link 
to related help topics, something you can't do in the present setup.

Get rid of most, or all of the current explanation text in the settings pages.  
I'd also like to see you get rid of all the different 'Change' buttons on a 
page, which only confuse matters and make the addition of other (perhaps 
scripted) buttons on the page either difficult or impossible.  The settings 
pages will also become smaller, making additional prefs easier to add and for 
users to manage.
Comment 1 KDF 2005-11-03 22:34:00 UTC
patches welcome
Comment 2 Dan Sully 2005-11-04 09:46:35 UTC
Good ideas here Jim - the whole settings situation has been a pet-peeve of mine for a while. Unfortunately 
it's going to take a bit of thought and reworking.
Comment 3 Dan Sully 2006-06-13 00:08:14 UTC
Settings work is going to happen post 6.5
Comment 4 Chris Owens 2006-11-16 10:21:29 UTC
see also bug 4492
Comment 5 Michael Herger 2007-11-19 03:16:41 UTC
Implemented in SC7
Comment 6 Jim McAtee 2007-11-19 10:47:57 UTC
No offense, but what has been done is a half solution.  All that's been accomplished (and, as far as I can, in only the Default skin) is that the longer descriptions have been hidden.  That's fine, and it does help clean up the settings pages, making locating a setting on the page easier, but there's still no "Help".  At least provide links from the settings to an HTML Help document.  The long descriptions are long way from real documentation.
Comment 7 Blackketter Dean 2007-12-29 05:57:24 UTC
*** Bug 4492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Alan Young 2011-11-06 23:23:43 UTC
Unassigned bugs cannot have a priority.