From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UI issue: inactive menu entries and icons
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:24:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4592AC67.8060507@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861wmlsek9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
David Kastrup skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I find it disturbing that inactive menu entries and toolbar icons
> won't display their tooltip. "What is this about?" is an interesting
> question also when an item is inactive. I actually find this
> _particularly_ interesting since I would like to figure out what would
> make such entries active. Not getting the tooltip for them makes this
> more difficult.
>
I agree, but it is very hard (impossible?) to do in some toolkits. For
example, inactive usually means that no events whatsoever are generated for
those icons/buttons. Things like Enter and Leave events that are used to
determine what tooltip to show.
Tooltips are shown for inactive icons with the native toolbar, but not
inactive menu entries. It is complicated for Lesstif/Motif and Gtk+ and I
guess that is why tool tips for inactive tool bar icons are not shown (well,
in the Gtk-case, I know that is so). So I suggest leaving this as is until
after the release.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-27 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-27 12:34 UI issue: inactive menu entries and icons David Kastrup
2006-12-27 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-12-27 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-12-27 16:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-12-27 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2006-12-27 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-12-28 17:19 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-27 17:24 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2006-12-30 6:49 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-12-27 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-12-29 12:12 ` Jan Djärv
2006-12-29 22:58 ` Richard Stallman
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