Re: Tooltips and menus

[Chong Yidong]

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 suggested this some time ago.  The consensus on this list was to
keep using tooltips; the reason offered was that the tooltips provide
extra information.  Personally, I think that menu entries should be
written in such a way that all the necessary information is right
there, without need for tooltips.

If that's too radical a concept for people to swallow, another idea is
to remove tooltips for menu entries that open up submenus.  Tthat's
what the Gnome menu does, and will probably solve the particular
problem that Richard noticed.