Tooltips and menus

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

While navigating menus, I find that tooltips are a pain because they
often obscure part of the menu.  They don't obscure the menu item that
the mouse is on, but they obscure the item below it.  And when the
mouse is on an item that leads to another menu, such as Help -> More
Manuals, sometimes the tooltip obscures part of the submenu, which is
a real pain.

I suppose it is impossible to position tooltips in a way that can
never obscure what the user wants to see next.  But is it possible to
determine where the submenu is, and avoid obscuring that?

GNU Emacs 22.0.50.48 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-05-03 on ututo-xs