From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tooltips and menus
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:40:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4472BC6D.5060901@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8764jx8ras.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
Chong Yidong wrote:
> If that's too radical a concept for people to swallow, another idea is
> to remove tooltips for menu entries that open up submenus. Tthat's
> what the Gnome menu does, and will probably solve the particular
> problem that Richard noticed.
>
I agree. Tooltips only appear when the mouse stays over a menu item. For
normal menu items, this probably means the user is hesitating and could
do with some help. But for submenus, the user might leave their mouse
over the submenu entry while they scan through the items in the submenu.
In that case the tooltip gets in the way.
It might be useful to introduce a third setting for tooltip-mode that
means "not-menus", to give the behaviour of some UIs where menu help
appears in the status bar (equivalent to the minibuffer in Emacs), while
elsewhere help is given in tooltips.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-23 7:40 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
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 [this message]
2006-05-23 8:27 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-24 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
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