Brainstorm link:

https://maemo.org/community/brainsto...ion_framework/

There is one thing about MAEMO 5 that seems to be a really missing: there is no context help whatsoever on the device. Nor there is any hope for improvements because there is no official framework or directive regarding device or application documentation and help.

I think I remember reading somewhere that the lack of a help framework was a "feature" and not a bug. I would like to suggest otherwise.

It would improve the usability to have a common maemo-wide framework for providing context and user-documentation.

Here are some issues caused by not having any help and documentation system on the N900 device:

1) There are several instances when the user has no clue as to what the currently displayed options are for or how to use them. Usually, he or she must use a trial-and-error approach. It would be much better if there was a mechanism to display some hints, tool-tips or help pages about the available controls in that view.

2) There is no central location where the user can search for some topic in order to find out how to perform an activity. To make things more difficult, sometimes the desired option is just hidden from view (a button that is not in the viewable area). Examples of such activities would be: "How to change a ring tone; How to edit a profile; How to connect to a computer using bluetooth."

Thanks for your attention

Luis
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Here is a possible solution (its already in the brainstorm):

We could at least borrow from the QT/KDE documentation framework. A bunch of HTML files, indexable, fire-able either from within the application or by an external information applet.