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Re: Tooltips and menus


From: Jan Djärv
Subject: Re: Tooltips and menus
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:57:26 +0200
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David Kastrup skrev:
Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>

I'd vote to keep them.
Same here.
Since they are very uncommon in other applications, I vote for
turning them of by default, with an option to turn them on.

The question is whether they are considered helpful in general, not
whether other applications have them.  Emacs has a lot of things that
other applications don't.  My vote to keep them was because I
considered them useful.  Turning them off by default will, like most
other user convenience settings, have the effect that nobody ever
notices their availability.  In particular those users who would
profit from them.

I was kind of assuming that users don't find them useful and as a result other applications don't have them. But I may assume too much here.

FWIW, I do find them annoying sometimes. They tend to obscure other menu entries. For the most part, they don't say any more than the menu entry itself. For example Options => Show/Hide => Toolbar is pretty obvious. The tool tip is "Turn tool-bar on/off" which adds nothing IMHO.

        Jan D.


        Jan D.




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