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Closing the help perspective is not intuitive
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Description

Contrary to views, the Help perspective does not provide any intuitive close button with a cross symbol. To get rid of the perspective it is necessary to click on Windows->Close_Perspective. But the user will probably not know, what a perspective is and that a Click on Help->Contents will activate a perspective.

At least the name of the button should be changed to something like "Help Perspective" instead of Contents.

Event Timeline

The "Switch to Help Mode" button in the Editor should be changed to "Back to application" or something similar when in the help perspective.

Possibly call the button "Open Help Perspective"?

"Open Help Perspective" sounds good to me. And then maybe just "Close Help Perspective"? (since this is what it would do).

See branch
bug-13088-clarify-help-perspective-switching

for implementation details

[3d29a2]: Merge branch 'bug-13088-clarify-help-perspective-switching'

Merged commits:

2012-09-13 12:48:45 Caspar Goch [54a531]
Renamed buttons and corresponding functions

Also there is now a Close Help Perspective button in the editor, which
toggles its visibility inversely to the Open Help Perspective Button