[drupal-devel] [task] Improve helpsystem and helptexts

[Uwe Hermann]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/20760

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    base system
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  stefan nagtegaal
 Reported by:  stefan nagtegaal
 Updated by:   Uwe Hermann
 Status:       patch

Hm, I'm not sure whether the help texts should be removed altogether,
but making them shorter and more concise is definately a good thing.




Uwe Hermann



Previous comments:
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April 18, 2005 - 16:16 : stefan nagtegaal

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/helptext-removal.diff (89.03 KB)

I know of you guys are falling from their chair when seeing this patch,
but...


The attached patch removes all long helptexts which are used by the
help.module to display them.
I - and i know there are more people who thinks about that the same way
- believe that, with a good CMS these kind of very long helptexts are
not needed. I would prefer to improve the short helptexts on top of
every page, instead of these longer versions.


The documentation team already started to improve these short texts, to
reflect what people could do on a certain page..


Another reason to delete these helptexts was that there were almost
none of the translators who translated them. I'm not sure if that is
because the text is too large, or the info is outdated..


But, i think it would be better to remove these... See also the related
thread here:
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/drupal-docs/2005-04/msg00008.html


By applying this patch, the help.module will be deprecated... :-)