Re: Tooltips and menus

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

David Kastrup skrev:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>>>>
>>>> I'd vote to keep them.
>>> Same here.
>> Since they are very uncommon in other applications, I vote for
>> turning them of by default, with an option to turn them on.
> 
> The question is whether they are considered helpful in general, not
> whether other applications have them.  Emacs has a lot of things that
> other applications don't.  My vote to keep them was because I
> considered them useful.  Turning them off by default will, like most
> other user convenience settings, have the effect that nobody ever
> notices their availability.  In particular those users who would
> profit from them.

I was kind of assuming that users don't find them useful and as a result other 
applications don't have them.  But I may assume too much here.

FWIW, I do find them annoying sometimes.  They tend to obscure other menu 
entries.  For the most part, they don't say any more than the menu entry 
itself.  For example Options => Show/Hide => Toolbar is pretty obvious.  The 
tool tip is "Turn tool-bar on/off" which adds nothing IMHO.

	Jan D.


	Jan D.