[PR #750] [MERGED] ui: Settings: Explain what "double tap" means #1698

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📋 Pull Request Information

Original PR: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/pull/750
Author: @nh2
Created: 6/14/2020
Status: ✅ Merged
Merged: 6/14/2020
Merged by: @p12tic

Base: master ← Head: double-tap-explanation

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03c1f06 ui: Settings: Explain what "double tap" means

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1 file changed (+57 additions, -43 deletions)

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📝 src/gui/src/ServerConfigDialogBase.ui (+57 -43)

📄 Description

It took me half an hour, and a look at the code, to figure out what "double tap" means. I thought it meant "click", so I tried clicking around on the screen edge but it wouldn't do anything. I think it's a bad translation; probably a better English word for the motion would be "bump" or "edge bump".

In any case, a detailed explanation is better. So this PR adds a label

Bump against the screen edge with the mouse pointer twice in quick succession.

Screenshot of what it looks like with my change:

I think this way of explaining it is better than a tool-tip or Qt's What's This functionality because most people don't know that those exist. An alternative would be to rename the setting from "tap" to "bump" (thus also changing the mnemonic key) and write on the settings screen something like "you can right-click each setting for a description of what it does" so that What's this is more discoverable, but I'd only do that after explaining the other settings as well, and that is more involved than this quick fix, which I think should be landed first.

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## 📋 Pull Request Information **Original PR:** https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/pull/750 **Author:** [@nh2](https://github.com/nh2) **Created:** 6/14/2020 **Status:** ✅ Merged **Merged:** 6/14/2020 **Merged by:** [@p12tic](https://github.com/p12tic) **Base:** `master` ← **Head:** `double-tap-explanation` --- ### 📝 Commits (1) - [`03c1f06`](https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/commit/03c1f06878ed1cf7bc34481a88333f7bef7a4c57) ui: Settings: Explain what "double tap" means ### 📊 Changes **1 file changed** (+57 additions, -43 deletions) <details> <summary>View changed files</summary> 📝 `src/gui/src/ServerConfigDialogBase.ui` (+57 -43) </details> ### 📄 Description It took me half an hour, and a look at the code, to figure out what "double tap" means. I thought it meant "click", so I tried clicking around on the screen edge but it wouldn't do anything. I think it's a bad translation; probably a better English word for the motion would be "bump" or "edge bump". In any case, a detailed explanation is better. So this PR adds a label > Bump against the screen edge with the mouse pointer twice in quick succession. Screenshot of what it looks like with my change: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/399535/84600790-3fee9700-ae7c-11ea-95a6-1f4756db5702.png) --- I think this way of explaining it is better than a tool-tip or Qt's `What's This` functionality because most people don't know that those exist. An alternative would be to rename the setting from "tap" to "bump" (thus also changing the mnemonic key) and write on the settings screen something like "you can right-click each setting for a description of what it does" so that `What's this` is more discoverable, but I'd only do that after explaining the other settings as well, and that is more involved than this quick fix, which I think should be landed first. --- <sub>🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.</sub>