From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk version getting closer Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:46 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021121140846.GA21267@gnu.org> References: <200211211309.WAA29740@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037887931 13670 80.91.224.249 (21 Nov 2002 14:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Es3o-0003Xl-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:12:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Es7W-000208-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:15:54 +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 18Es16-0002Z9-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18Es0h-00024v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18Es0d-00024g-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Es0d-00024a-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Es0c-0005gp-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:08:46 -0500 Original-To: Kenichi Handa Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211211309.WAA29740@etlken.m17n.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:9599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9599 On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:09:29PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote: > I think the right thing is to decide the tooltip X/Y offset according to > the size and position of the rectangle area that activates the tooltip, not > according to the mouse position. Then we can make tooltip never overlap > with the rectangle I think that's an excellent idea -- it would yield much more consistent results than the current method. One thing I noticed about the windows tooltips is that they pop up neatly aligned with the edge of the menu entry or whatever, whereas the emacs ones seem placed sort of randomly (presumably they're at a constant offset from the mouse pointer's position when the tooltip popped up, but the offset from the actual menu item is much more noticable). Perhaps it would also be good to pass a hint as to the preferred side of rectangle to put the tooltip on (which I guess would be ignored if there wasn't enough space). -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security.