Hi,

My colleague is trying to view a help system from a Linux server by directing the output on to X Window. Firefox 2.0 is the default browser. She has been facing the following problem:

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Hi,

Our development guys say that they want to provide short sentences as help text to explain what a user can type in the text fields on the graphical user interface (GUI) of our product.

I opposed doing it for the following reasons:
- Any help information which cannot go in as a tool tip should be included in the documentation. The GUI is not the place to document it.
- Text on the GUI makes translation and localization of the product expensive.
- Look and feel, and aesthetics take a blow.
- Having help text on only some screens and pages makes the GUI inconsistent.