There should be a way to disable the help links

[clee@…]

I would like to see some sort of a way to disable the little informational "Note:" text at the bottom of pages like the Roadmap and the Newticket pages.

Something as simple as a small circular button with an 'x' inside it that stored a cookie or something would be fine with me.

[Christian Boos]

| Something as simple as a small circular button with an 'x' inside it that stored a cookie or something would be fine with me.

I must lack coffee this morning, but I've no idea what you're talking about … :)

A more concrete implementation for this would be a global TracIni setting

[trac]
help_notes = off

and the templates could output the Note: block conditionally:

trac/web/main.py

@@ -68 +68 @@
     hdf['trac'] = {
         'version': __version__,
         'time': format_datetime(),
-        'time.gmt': http_date()
+        'time.gmt': http_date(),
+        'help_notes': env.config.getbool('trac', 'help_notes')
     }
     hdf['trac.href'] = {
         'wiki': env.href.wiki(),

templates/roadmap.cs

@@ -77 +77 @@
   </div><?cs
  /if ?>
 
+<?cs if:help_notes ?>
  <div id="help">
   <strong>Note:</strong> See <a href="<?cs
     var:trac.href.wiki ?>/TracRoadmap">TracRoadmap</a> for help on using the roadmap.
  </div>
+<?cs /if ?>
 
 </div>
 <?cs include:"footer.cs"?>

[Christopher Lenz]

This should be part of the “Better help/documentation system” item that's planned for 0.12. I'm not in favor of adding extra conditionals cruft to every controller and template for this.

[clee@…]

So what I'm talking about is, currently, the 'Note:' text looks like this:

<strong>Note:</strong> This is an annoying note that you'll see every time you look at this page!

I would really like it if, for each 'Note', there was a small icon, maybe like the small circular 'X' icon in this image: ​http://www.maven.de/pics/dsl6k.png - clicking on the icon would set a cookie on your machine which would make that 'Note:' always hidden.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to clee@c133.org:

So what I'm talking about is, currently, the 'Note:' text looks like this:

<strong>Note:</strong> This is an annoying note that you'll see every time you look at this page!

This could probably removed from the output by a filter, the same way we filtered out the access keys in 0.11.

[osimons]

Replying to cboos:

This could probably removed from the output by a filter, the same way we filtered out the access keys in 0.11.

Like this in a site.html template:

<div py:match="div[@id='content']//div[@id='help']" py:attrs="select('@*')">
  <!-- All help notes are removed from this site... -->
</div>

With 0.11 and Genshi, I really see no need to add code to Trac to support the removal of these messages. I propose closing as wontfix.

[osimons]

I do hope that snippet doesn't remove unexpected things - please use with care :-)

[Christian Boos]

I never felt like the help links went into the way, and I still use them occasionally.

If this is nevertheless a problem for some people, the recipe in comment:5 should do.

[Christian Boos]

Btw, this has been implemented for 1.0.

[Christian Boos]

In r11377.

[Peter Suter]

r11129?

[Christian Boos]

Hm, yes, copy/pasto ;-)