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Re: Tooltips and menus
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Tooltips and menus |
Date: |
Tue, 23 May 2006 10:27:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
For what it's worth, I can agree here as well. Tooltips are detail
information, and the submenu itself provides better details than the
tooltip would. Generally removing a submenu tooltip whenever a
submenu opens seems like a good idea.
> 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.
I think we should generally refrain from using tooltips on submenus,
but I don't think that the rest requires a different option.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- RE: Tooltips and menus, (continued)
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/22
- Re: Tooltips and menus, David Kastrup, 2006/05/23
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/05/22
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Chong Yidong, 2006/05/22
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/22
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Jason Rumney, 2006/05/23
- Re: Tooltips and menus,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Tooltips and menus, Richard Stallman, 2006/05/23