Tip of the day

Hi.

I started writing some tips of the day. Is this the style we
want to
write them in?

/Jacob
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On 12/13/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen <jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> I started writing some tips of the day. Is this the
style we want to
> write them in?

They look good, but we should standardise a format for
describing key
presses, e.g. should it be capitalised, italics, quoted,
etc? My
preference would be for capitalised + italics. I definately
wouldn't
lowercase them. Similarly menu paths -- the forward slash is
a good
idea, but italicising would help to separate the menu names
from the
surrounding text, especially when they contain spaces. My
preference
would be italicised names separated by non-italicised
arrows.

BTW, as you've mentioned templates, I wonder how hard it
would be to
support templates with multiple tabbable fields like GEdit
and VS2005
have? A tooltip notifying the user that they can press
"Tab" to expand
the template would be cool too.

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Hi.

On 12/14/06, Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen <jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> > I started writing some tips of the day. Is this
the style we want to
> > write them in?
>
> They look good, but we should standardise a format for
describing key
> presses, e.g. should it be capitalised, italics,
quoted, etc? My
> preference would be for capitalised + italics. I
definately wouldn't
> lowercase them. Similarly menu paths -- the forward
slash is a good
> idea, but italicising would help to separate the menu
names from the
> surrounding text, especially when they contain spaces.
My preference
> would be italicised names separated by non-italicised
arrows.

Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of the day is
shown in a
TextView which doesn't support markup as far as I know.
Should we use
a label instead?

> BTW, as you've mentioned templates, I wonder how hard
it would be to
> support templates with multiple tabbable fields like
GEdit and VS2005
> have? A tooltip notifying the user that they can press
"Tab" to expand
> the template would be cool too.

I don't know how hard it is, but there already is a bug on
this:

http
://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55843

John Luke even wrote down some thoughts. So you are more
than welcome
to give it a go. 

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On 12/14/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen <jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of the day
is shown in a
> TextView which doesn't support markup as far as I know.
Should we use
> a label instead?

TextView certainly supports markup, it's just a lot more
complicated
 See
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TextWidget.
html for
info. However, a label would probably be easier if we don't
need this
power. IIRC, GtkSourceView itself is built on top of
TextView.

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I'm wondering, would it be a good idea to show the tip of
the day in the
welcome page?

El dv 15 de 12 del 2006 a les 04:10 +0000, en/na Michael
Hutchinson va
escriure:
> On 12/14/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen <jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of the
day is shown in a
> > TextView which doesn't support markup as far as I
know. Should we use
> > a label instead?
> 
> TextView certainly supports markup, it's just a lot
more complicated
> 
See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TextWidget.
html for
> info. However, a label would probably be easier if we
don't need this
> power. IIRC, GtkSourceView itself is built on top of
TextView.
> 

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i think that would be good

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 12:57 +0100, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> I'm wondering, would it be a good idea to show the tip
of the day in the
> welcome page?
> 
> El dv 15 de 12 del 2006 a les 04:10 +0000, en/na
Michael Hutchinson va
> escriure:
> > On 12/14/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen
<jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of
the day is shown in a
> > > TextView which doesn't support markup as far
as I know. Should we use
> > > a label instead?
> > 
> > TextView certainly supports markup, it's just a
lot more complicated
> >  See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TextWidget.
html for
> > info. However, a label would probably be easier if
we don't need this
> > power. IIRC, GtkSourceView itself is built on top
of TextView.
> > 
> 
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On 12/15/06, Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinsongmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen <jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of the
day is shown in a
> > TextView which doesn't support markup as far as I
know. Should we use
> > a label instead?
>
> TextView certainly supports markup, it's just a lot
more complicated

Yes, that's what I meant. 

> 
See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TextWidget.
html for
> info. However, a label would probably be easier if we
don't need this
> power. IIRC, GtkSourceView itself is built on top of
TextView.
>
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On 12/15/06, Lluis Sanchez <lluisximian.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering, would it be a good idea to show the tip
of the day in the
> welcome page?

So should we drop the Tip of the Day window entirely and
just show
tips in the welcome page? Should there be a next tip link or
do we
just show a random tip each time the welcome page is shown?

>
> El dv 15 de 12 del 2006 a les 04:10 +0000, en/na
Michael Hutchinson va
> escriure:
> > On 12/14/06, Jacob Ilsų Christensen
<jacobilsoegmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sounds like a good idea! As of now the tip of
the day is shown in a
> > > TextView which doesn't support markup as far
as I know. Should we use
> > > a label instead?
> >
> > TextView certainly supports markup, it's just a
lot more complicated
> >  See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/TextWidget.
html for
> > info. However, a label would probably be easier if
we don't need this
> > power. IIRC, GtkSourceView itself is built on top
of TextView.
> >
>
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