Re: Tooltips

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Preben Randhol <randhol@dusken4.samfundet.ntnu.no>
To: Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky <effugas@best.com>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Tooltips


>* "Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas@best.com
>|
>| Well, to resurrect a VERY old suggestion of mine, I'd like a
grey's-anatomy
>| style set of buttons I can hold down to get tooltip descriptions to pop
up
>| on EVERYTHING, and STAY up until a nontooltip area was clicked.
(Clicking a
>| tooltip would link to a helpfile, which could then link to a screenplay
of
>| the appropriate feature.)
>|
>| I hate "what's this feature, hold over 3 sec, ok next, hold over, ok
>| next"...
>|
>| The stickytips should be translucent, btw.
>
>Let's not change everything shall we? Tooltips are fine. Read the
>manual use text on buttons etc. and you don't have to put the mouse
>over every icon.


Usability wise, I don't like the present tooltip system.  Please explain to
me why the above is *bad*.  (Oh, I want to know more about left justify.
Now I must go to a menu and type "left justify"...wish I could type an
icon...)

Do that, and I'll go into depth why it's very good.

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