From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk version getting closer Date: 13 Nov 2002 09:09:47 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200211071936.gA7JaBMU001860@stubby.bodenonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037208342 27889 80.91.224.249 (13 Nov 2002 17:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18C1Gm-0007Fd-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:25:40 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18C1Sm-0001KG-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C1EN-0001t9-00; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C11V-0006z4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18C11R-0006yg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18C11Q-0006xS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:09:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18C0zl-0005w7-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:08:05 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18C0zk-0005vy-00 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:08:04 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-146-225-32-177.synopsys.com Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037207284 18505 146.225.32.177 (13 Nov 2002 17:08:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:08:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9392 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9392 >>>>> Karl Eichwalder writes: > Richard Stallman writes: >> Could you explain what is disturbing about it? Then I can think >> about the issue. > Tooltips are poping up and hiding other info. As somebody else > explained, for menu entries tooltips are not that important, because > menu texts are better to understand than tool bar icons. If tooltips are active, they tend to pop up on their own. This can be disconcerting for menus, but perhaps that's because I'm slightly more used to the MS-Windows approach. In that case, tooltips for menus only popup if you use the "What's this?" command (Shift-F1). This "What's this?" command can be applied to any widget on the screen (but not every widget answers it). Perhaps you want to think about this approach for menu tooltips? -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA