Re: Application names in menus

[snickell stanford edu]

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-tooltips

But to summarize, the "tooltips" should be active sentences briefly
highlighting what the user can do with the application. It might be
worth considering hiding the "second line" of tool tip for panel
launchers, since most of these are going to be added by the user anyway.
Not positive what I think about this, but two line tooltips is a wee bit
excessive. It might be better without the line break; use a dash instead.

-Seth



Quoting Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>:

> Hey,
> 
> Does the tooltip say something generic too? :) I'm talking about
> tooltips for panel launchers too...I kind of hate to see 2 lined
> tooltips :(
> 
> 	
	See ya,	
> 	
		Glynn ;)
> 
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 17:35, snickell stanford edu wrote:
> > Havoc,
> > 
> > Where does the following "algorithm" break down?
> > 
> > if there's a Name & a GenericName:
> >   menu item = "Name GenericName"
> > if there's only a Name:
> >   menu item = "Name"
> > if there's only a GenericName:
> >   menu item = "GenericName"
> > 
> > Since the HIG states "Name GenericName" anyway I would expect this
> to
> > generally work. We coudln't think of any major cases where "Name
> > GenericName" wasn't reasonable for the HIG.
> > 
> > -Seth
> 
> 
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