Re: IDE

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/11/2015 06:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> High-level design is not "big design".  Quite the contrary: it
> generally leaves out all of the details, and documents only the main
> design decisions.  Like which features will be included and which
> definitely excluded, whether "fixed-window" appearance should be part
> of it or not, etc.  You can call this "guidelines" if "design" sounds
> too much.

Sounds good to me. Yes, "guidelines" is a more familiar term for that.

> > a significant number of users might prefer to use only some of the
> > parts.
>
> That's OK, and I see no problem with that.

So we need to make sure that they can.

> > - It's background rendering is inconsistent. As an example, the first
> > time I evaluate (tooltip-show "abc") in an Emacs session, the background
> > is yellow-ish. The next time, and after that, the background is black.
>
> This could be the result of the recent changes by Ken, to make
> tooltips less "voracious", to use Martin's term.  Trying in an older
> Emacs will tell.

No, that's a fairly old problem. And specific to GTK, IIUC.

> > - Is there a way to show several tooltips at once? To display different
> > elements of the completion UI side by side.
>
> No, you need to lump them all together, or use menus.

Neither option is good enough.

> > - If a tooltip is displayed, and I Alt-Tab to another program's window,
> > the tooltip remains on top. This is by far the most annoying one.
>
> Martin told you how to solve this, I think.

Yup.