From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UI issue: inactive menu entries and icons
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:06:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvac19z5nj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861wmlsek9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed\, 27 Dec 2006 13\:34\:14 +0100")
> 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.
90% agreement. I'd just push this further and suggest that we add
a "inactive-help-echo" property which would be displayed in place of the
help-echo when the item is inactive. This alternative help could indeed
explain why it's inactive and/or how to activate it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-27 16:06 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 [this message]
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
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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