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Re: Tooltips and menus
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Leon |
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Re: Tooltips and menus |
Date: |
Sun, 21 May 2006 20:34:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> While navigating menus, I find that tooltips are a pain because they
> often obscure part of the menu. They don't obscure the menu item that
> the mouse is on, but they obscure the item below it. And when the
> mouse is on an item that leads to another menu, such as Help -> More
> Manuals, sometimes the tooltip obscures part of the submenu, which is
> a real pain.
>
> I suppose it is impossible to position tooltips in a way that can
> never obscure what the user wants to see next. But is it possible to
> determine where the submenu is, and avoid obscuring that?
>
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.48 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> 2006-05-03 on ututo-xs
Display tooptips in minibuffer would be nice:-)
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Leon