From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tooltips and menus
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:36:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk68dgb50.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85wtce2ino.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 22 May 2006 17:17:31 +0200)
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:17:31 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd@mit.edu>
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Apparently not. This is why most applications, as far as I can tell,
> > avoid using tooltips in menu entries.
> >
> > Should Emacs do that too?
>
> I am using Emacs with GTK (though I don't think the toolkit makes much
> of a difference) and I find the tooltips on menu entries not
> disruptive (they do a pretty good job at disappearing). I don't use
> the menus very much though, probably like most advanced users. The
> tooltips help keeping the menu entries themselves concise and thus
> recognizable.
>
> I'd vote to keep them.
Same here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 18:36 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
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 [this message]
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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