Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>>     ! "              For this window of the frame:
>>     ! mouse-1: select (drag to resize), mouse-2: maximize,
>>       mouse-3: vanish")
>>
>> "delete" would be better than "vanish".
>>
>> Aside from that, do people like it?
>
> Not I. There is rarely any need for a tooltip to use more than one
> line. And this case certainly doesn't require it.

Compare the one-line and the two-line version.  The latter version is
quite narrower, and the _length_, not the height of the tooltip is
more disturbing here, in my opinion.

> Why would a tooltip, which is already contextual, need to explain
> what its context is, what it pertains to?

The context is the mode line, and it pertains to the window above the
mode line.

> Why would it need to say "For this window of the frame"? If it is
> not clear enough without that context explanation, then there is
> something wrong with the UI beyond just the tooltip text.

The mode line is not the same as the window.  "This window of the
frame" makes clear that we are not talking about the window system's
definition of a window, but about something that is nested within
frames.

By the way: this tooltip (however many lines it takes) should
absolutely not get displayed when there is only one window in the
frame: it will only confuse the user since all announced operations
are noops and there is no difference between window and frame.

-- 
David Kastrup