On 11 Mar 2002, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Oops not so easy. I'll need another static signal in Dialogs.h > >> static bool SigC::Signal0<bool> Dialogs::tooltipsEnabled; > > Allan> Why? The tooltips should have a lyxrc entry and you can toggle > Allan> based on that value instead. Otherwise someone who wants/hates > Allan> tooltips has to turn them on/off in every session! > > No, because the tooltips are designed to be lengthy, helpful and > annoying when you do not need them. So it is reasonable to turn them > off by default.
I don't see a problem. Sure, some of the tooltips are long but you have to have your mouse over a button for them to appear. I have no problem with this. The thing I do have a problem with is that it is not really a "What's this?" mechanism. The new cursor shape implies that I should click on something that I'm asking about -- as learned by using KDE just once. AFAIAC we should just allow enable/disable of the tooltips and leave the cursor alone. The code that is in CVS works fine otherwise (ie. get rid of the "?" cursor and all is excellent). > BTW, we will need an icon for this toggle, since operating tooltips is > a mouse-based thing. Seems to be getting more and more complicated. BTW, I'm inclined to think that if we must have a menu entry for this then is should be Edit->Tooltips [] (located near the preferences stuff perhaps). As it is now it looks like it is a part of the documentation and worse yet the proximity and similarity to the Documents menu had me wondering if it wasn't an indicator of a file I had opened. Can we set the marker for the current buffer in the documents menu to a different colour or shape so it doesn't look like a toggle? Allan. (ARRae)
