From: Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Tooltips and menus
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:34:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ac9buq8m.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1FhrPr-0004kf-JH@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> While navigating menus, I find that tooltips are a pain because they
> often obscure part of the menu. They don't obscure the menu item that
> the mouse is on, but they obscure the item below it. And when the
> mouse is on an item that leads to another menu, such as Help -> More
> Manuals, sometimes the tooltip obscures part of the submenu, which is
> a real pain.
>
> I suppose it is impossible to position tooltips in a way that can
> never obscure what the user wants to see next. But is it possible to
> determine where the submenu is, and avoid obscuring that?
>
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.48 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-05-03 on ututo-xs
Display tooptips in minibuffer would be nice:-)
--
Leon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-21 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 17:08 Tooltips and menus Richard Stallman
2006-05-21 19:34 ` Leon [this message]
2006-05-21 20:43 ` Bill Wohler
2006-05-21 21:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-05-21 22:12 ` Leon
2006-05-21 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-21 20:16 ` Chong Yidong
2006-05-22 15:11 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-22 15:17 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-22 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-23 6:29 ` Jan Djärv
2006-05-23 8:30 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-23 8:57 ` Jan Djärv
2006-05-23 13:59 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-24 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-24 3:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-05-24 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-23 0:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-23 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-23 0:53 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-05-23 1:26 ` Chong Yidong
2006-05-23 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-23 7:40 ` Jason Rumney
2006-05-23 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-24 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
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