From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:21:31 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023906651 717 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2002 18:30:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk, romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17ICtO-0000BS-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17IDHJ-00058L-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:55:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17ICss-00017X-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17ICqk-00011B-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17ICqf-0003md-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:28:01 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 1741EA445B; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:21:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "12 Jun 2002 11:53:38 +0900") Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4803 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4803 Miles Bader writes: > If it's that the header-line should only show up when there's no > tool-bar, that's a bad idea: Yes, that was my idea. > In addition to providing something to click on for navigation, the > header-line serves to provide context, by showing the name of the > adjacent nodes; in fact, I'd argue that this is it's most important > function. The tool-bar, by contrast, only gives some unnamed buttons -- > that's useful, but it's not nearly good enough to replace the > header-line. There is some truth about your observation (even if these labels often are rather cryptic). If possible I'd like to see this info added to the tool tips: Go to next node: Intro Then consider to add an item to the tool-bar able to show menu containing _all_ adjacent and same level nodes. -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)