From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "What's This?" in Describe submenu Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:46:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200508241246.j7OCk3J18712@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <4308398B.60401@gmx.at> <200508230008.j7N081514425@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200508230440.j7N4eKJ14873@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124889416 17426 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2005 13:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 15:16:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7v5c-0004Gk-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7v9R-0000pU-O1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E7v4a-0006jL-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E7v4S-0006hp-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7v47-0005hz-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E7ufJ-0002Z6-Rt; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:47:38 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7OCkNqt003244; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:46:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j7OCk3J18712; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:46:03 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: eliz@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:38:10 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42390 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote" It seems Microsoft removed the "What's This" string and/or tooltip from the latest versions of Windows, That was a smart decision. They apparently forgot to update their website, which is what confused me, but I guess they will eventually get to that too. So the only purpose of the "What's This?" string would be for KDE users. But to KDE users the feature means a very different thing. I do not have the very latest KDE version and hence do not know whether KDE still uses the "What's This" menu item, or whether they already followed Microsoft's example, as they should. So what reason do we have to stick with an obsolete silly Microsoft idea, which, to their credit, they realized was silly and corrected? Sincerely, Luc.