Re: Tooltips and menus

[Jason Rumney]

Chong Yidong wrote:
> If that's too radical a concept for people to swallow, another idea is
> to remove tooltips for menu entries that open up submenus.  Tthat's
> what the Gnome menu does, and will probably solve the particular
> problem that Richard noticed.
>   
I agree. Tooltips only appear when the mouse stays over a menu item. For 
normal menu items, this probably means the user is hesitating and could 
do with some help. But for submenus, the user might leave their mouse 
over the submenu entry while they scan through the items in the submenu. 
In that case the tooltip gets in the way.

It might be useful to introduce a third setting for tooltip-mode that 
means "not-menus", to give the behaviour of some UIs where menu help 
appears in the status bar (equivalent to the minibuffer in Emacs), while 
elsewhere help is given in tooltips.