I saw this in the roundup tracker at issues.roundup-tracker.org.

It looks like the _generic.help.html strips the apply, clear etc
buttons and the checkboxes if there is no "property" passed to the
classhelp.

So a classhelp like:

  db.status.classhelp('id,name,description',label='Status')

that uses _generic.help.html will be a simple popup.

You ca see this by clicking on the status label at:

http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue1760553

The status label is:

http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/status?@startwith=0&@template=help&properties=id,name,description&form=itemSynopsis&type=checkbox&@sort=order&@pagesize=50

if you change that to include property:

http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/status?@startwith=0&@template=help&properties=id,name,description&form=itemSynopsis&type=checkbox&@sort=order&@pagesize=50&property="foo"

you get a help box with decorations.

If anybody wants to create a modified _generic.help.html that
implements this (the current one looks like it will error if property is
missing).

Tonu, would this solve your problem?

Tobias, I don't think the i18n issues are addressed by this idea.