From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 11028@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11028: 24.0.94; bad lighter and menus for `text-scale-mode'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:01:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuu5kf36.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F3DD8B617604CB59C5138747164263F@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:54:49 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I appreciate the intention of keeping the lighter short, but currently
> it is meaningless, if not misleading, to users. They need to fiddle
> around to find out what it means.
>
> The lighter text is " " by default (but fortunately an all-space lighter
> is not shown).
I think that's by design. There is no lighter for text-scale-mode when
you haven't scaled anything. I think that's natural.
> When you scale the text the lighter changes to a signed integer, such
> as "-1" or "+3".
>
> Seeing only that does not help users, unless they've already figured out
> what it stands for. It just makes them wonder, especially if they do
> not notice the lighter immediately after they change the text scale.
>
> You put your mouse over the lighter, to see what's up. The tooltip
> says only this, of course:
>
> Minor mode
> mouse-1: Display minor mode menu
> mouse-2: Show help for minor mode
> mouse-3: Toggle minor modes
I think all those mode menus should say what modes they belong to,
yes, instead of just "Minor mode".
> Not much help so far. You try mouse-1 and see this menu:
>
> -1
> -------------------
> Turn Off minor mode
> Help for minor mode
>
> ("Off" should not be capitalized, BTW.)
>
> Which minor mode? No idea still.
Yeah, that's not good.
> This menu would be better if it included (at least the scaling) items
> from the menu shown by `S-mouse-1', i.e.:
>
> Change Default Buffer Face
> --------------------------
> Change Buffer Font...
> Increase Buffer Text Size
> Decrease Buffer Text Size
> Reset to Default
True.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 18:54 bug#11028: 24.0.94; bad lighter and menus for `text-scale-mode' Drew Adams
2012-09-17 0:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-05-01 19:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 19:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-01 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-01 20:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 16:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-27 16:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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