From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'?
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeu0g0vu37.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5moj82m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:43:16 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> If a tooltip cannot be read in 10 seconds then it is too long, IMHO.
>
> You're confusing on-the-fly quick help messages and help-echo tooltip
> messages.
I don't think so.
> They can be used to give some extra info instead, in which case they
> could be fairly long and detailed.
The problem with big tooltips is that they obscure large parts of the
display. As such they are only disturbing most of the time.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-17 15:10 Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'? Christian Schlauer
2005-07-17 19:30 ` Drew Adams
2005-07-18 6:43 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-09-30 17:04 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-09-30 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-09-30 23:03 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-10-01 13:17 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-01 13:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-03 16:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-01 1:19 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 8:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-01 14:38 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 17:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-01 21:25 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 22:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-02 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-02 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-10-03 18:49 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-03 20:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-03 22:22 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-04 18:14 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-04 21:27 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-05 17:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-07 10:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-04 5:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-01 23:25 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-03 18:35 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-03 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-04 18:35 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-04 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-04 18:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-04 20:05 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 17:32 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 18:11 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-04 21:38 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-04 23:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-04 23:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-05 8:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-05 17:34 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-08 16:49 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-09 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-09 18:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-09 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-09 21:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-10 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-11 19:06 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-11 20:48 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-11 23:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-12 21:33 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-12 21:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-13 0:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-14 16:24 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-13 20:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 17:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-22 4:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-22 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-25 19:23 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-26 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 18:15 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-27 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 21:05 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-28 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-03 17:37 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-11-04 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-04 17:57 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-11-04 21:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-22 23:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-11 23:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-13 4:53 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 4:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-14 17:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-13 4:53 ` Richard M. Stallman
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