Re: Better default values for tooltip padding and `tooltip-hide-delay'?

[Lennart Borgman]

Christian Schlauer wrote:

> I just have the feeling that most tooltips are so short so that they
> can be read in 3 to 4 seconds. Displaying all tooltips for 10 seconds
> just because there are some tooltips that are fairly long is not
> perfect, IMO. How could this be solved? Personally I'd find it
> acceptable to `re-trigger' a long tooltip (by moving the mouse off of
> the `trigger element' and on it again) in order to be able to read the
> rest of it, but maybe others find that this is bad style.
>  
I would prefer something like having ESC remove the tooltip by default.

> What about my other suggestion: changing `internal-border-width' of
> `tooltip-frame-parameters' to 2 instead of 5? The genereous `padding'
>  
Looks much better with 2 IMHO.