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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: Tooltips and menus |
Date: | Tue, 23 May 2006 08:40:29 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
Chong Yidong wrote:
I agree. Tooltips only appear when the mouse stays over a menu item. For normal menu items, this probably means the user is hesitating and could do with some help. But for submenus, the user might leave their mouse over the submenu entry while they scan through the items in the submenu. In that case the tooltip gets in the way.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.
It might be useful to introduce a third setting for tooltip-mode that means "not-menus", to give the behaviour of some UIs where menu help appears in the status bar (equivalent to the minibuffer in Emacs), while elsewhere help is given in tooltips.
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