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Re: Tooltips and menus


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Tooltips and menus
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:36:11 +0300

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:17:31 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> 
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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.




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