RE: [gnubg] [Bug-gnubg] Strange FIBS ratings

[Albert Silver]

> Albert Silver <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I guess you didn't notice that it's moved to the right-click menu?
> > Yes, thanks. Soemone showed me this. I think some kind of button
would
> > still be necessary here. Normally, no one adds buttons for local
> > menus, it's true, but since GNUBG doesn't have any local menus
except
> > for this one, no one is going to find it, not even by accident.
> It defenitely needs to be added to the manual.
> I agree that it doesn't stick out, but if someone was looking they may
> well
> find it

No, they really won't. Throughout the entire program there isn't a
single local menu. Right-click anywhere and nothing happens. No menu and
no reaction, so presuming the user will suddenly try it on the
statistics is not a good idea IMO.

> - or look at the manual if not.

This is the death of that function then (copying to clipboard). There
are two reasons for this:

1) Users are not inclined to read manuals unless absolutely forced to.
The number one method of learning how to use a program (valid for at
least 3/4ths of users) is to click and experiment. Following this they
will quickly have given up on right-clicking as it clearly doesn't do
anything (except for this lone area).

2) Even if they are inclined to look this up in the manual, they will
not find it. Not because the manual is poorly written or constructed,
but because I do not believe they will even guess this function exists
without something like a button announcing it, so it will not occur to
them to look in the manual to find how to copy the stats to the
clipboard.

                                                Albert

> 
> We don't won't lots of emails with people asking where it is either
> though...
> 
> Jon