Re: Tooltips and menus

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> 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.