Re: revised patch to change tooltips

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

nils wrote:

> http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/panel/menus.html
> Well, here's another update. This time there are proposals for the tooltips.

Are multi-line tooltips possible in gtk2.0?  I think some of the longer
suggestions could get quite hard to read if they had to go on a single
line.

> I think the big open issue is, what happens
> when we change a menu item so it does not map 1-1 with the app name?
> Do we change the app name (hard) or do we at least make some reference
> to the menu item in the app title bar (easier)?

I guess a related question with this approach is what do you do when
people add two different apps to the menus that do much the same thing,
e.g. Xchat and GnomeChat, Gnotepad and Gedit, Clock and Another Clock? 
The tooltips and menu items would be pretty much identical for the two
apps.  Perhaps the application name also needs to be retained in the
menu or the tooltip somehow?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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