From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'? Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:42:36 +0200 Message-ID: <43498ECC.1060707@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128894208 7681 80.91.229.2 (9 Oct 2005 21:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 09 23:43:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOiwU-0005dF-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOiwT-0001xV-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EOiwL-0001xD-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EOiwJ-0001wx-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EOiwJ-0001wu-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EOiwJ-0000sv-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.31) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4332AC78003AC4B8; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:42:36 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: 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:43756 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >1. The tooltip font size should be the same as the size of the frame default >font. > >2. Users should be able to explicitly change the tooltip font size (only). > >Moving to a smaller font automatically is a bad idea. Some people have >difficulty with small text, so they set the frame font to a readable size. >Automatically introducing smaller text presents an unnecessary obstacle to >them. > > I really agree. The question must not only be what looks most nice. We should also care about people having viewing difficulties. BTW this is a rather common problem in web design also. Unfortunately it is not always taken care of in a accessability review since it might focus on people with very bad disabilities.