Re: Tooltips and menus

[Leon]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

Display tooptips in minibuffer would be nice:-)

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Leon