From: Christian Schlauer <cs-muelleimer-rubbish.bin@arcor.de>
Subject: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'?
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:10:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbdscc$ovc$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
Hello!
So far, I used Emacs 21.3 on Windows which doesn't have tooltips, so
tooltips are quite new for me. I would like to make two suggestions:
1. Since I started to use CVS Emacs, I always found the `padding' of
the tooltips too large. Now I started to look if this is
customizable and found `tooltip-frame-parameters', and indeed the
padding can be changed -- it defaults to `(internal-border-width .
5)'.
I suggest a change of `internal-border-width' to either 1 or 2
instead of 5. The reason is that the tooltips are too large and
hide too much text in the buffer (for example in occur-mode
buffers, where I like to highlight the current match by putting the
mouse on that line so that that line is highlighted). A tooltip
should be a `hint', but the large padding makes them more like a
`banner'. (I don't want to turn them off either as I think they are
quite useful -- they are just a little too big in my opinion.)
Compared to the GNOME 2.10 tooltips, the default of 5 in Emacs
seems to be similar, but I think (internal-border-width . 2) is
aesthetically more pleasing, and (internal-border-width . 1) is
also okay, but real minimalistic, so I suggest 2.
2. I also believed (until yesterday) that the only way to make a
tooltip disappear is to move the mouse away from the `green area'.
This impression was caused by the value of `tooltip-hide-delay',
which defaults to 10 seconds. IMO, this is far too long. I
experimented a little and I think that setting it to 3 or 4 seconds
is much better and still long enough for reading the tooltip. 10
seconds until the tooltip goes away feels like an eternity.
It would be great if some of you could try (setq tooltip-hide-delay 3)
and (setq tooltip-hide-delay 4) as well as customize the
`internal-border-width' of `tooltip-frame-parameters' to 2. What do
you think?
Regards,
--
Christian Schlauer
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-17 15:10 Christian Schlauer [this message]
2005-07-17 19:30 ` Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'? Drew Adams
2005-07-18 6:43 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-09-30 17:04 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-09-30 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-09-30 23:03 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-10-01 13:17 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-01 13:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-03 16:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-01 1:19 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 8:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-01 14:38 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 17:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-01 21:25 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-10-01 22:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-02 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-02 15:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-03 18:49 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-03 20:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-03 22:22 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-04 18:14 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-04 21:27 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-05 17:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-07 10:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-04 5:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-01 23:25 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-03 18:35 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-03 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-04 18:35 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-04 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-04 18:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-04 20:05 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 17:32 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 18:11 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-04 21:38 ` Jason Rumney
2005-10-04 23:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-04 23:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-05 8:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-10-05 17:34 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-05 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-08 16:49 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-09 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-09 18:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-09 21:32 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-09 21:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-10 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-11 19:06 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-11 20:48 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-11 23:20 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-12 21:33 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-12 21:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-13 0:51 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-14 16:24 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-13 20:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 17:30 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-22 4:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-22 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-25 19:23 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-26 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 18:15 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-27 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 21:05 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-10-28 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-03 17:37 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-11-04 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-04 17:57 ` Christian Schlauer
2005-11-04 21:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-22 23:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-11 23:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-13 4:53 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 4:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-10-14 17:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-13 4:53 ` Richard M. Stallman
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