On Wednesday 06 February 2002 1:00 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:17 am, Juergen Spitzmueller > Angus> wrote: > >> The patch adds: - Tooltips and Hints to Ref - Tooltips only to > >> Character (no Hints needed IMHO) > > Angus> Jürgen, I'm a bit ambivalent about all these messages. It seems > Angus> to me that the user may suffer from sensory overload (aka MS > Angus> paperclip) if we aren't careful. > > Yes, please do not add tooltips that merely repeat what the interface > already makes clear. I think that, while the longer helps texts are > useful, short tooltips will often be stupid. > > What we could have is long/verbose tooltips which appear with a right > mouse click.
We've decided to have a choice " None | Minimal | Verbose " and the tooltip will appear as approriate. If no "Minimal" tooltip is defined, then nothing will appear. > On this subject, please read > http://www.iarchitect.com/stupid.htm#STUPID16 > > Actually, the whole 'interface hall of shame is interesting'. It has > also something on nested tabfolders :) It's a long time since I read this. Thank you. Angus
