>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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. Allan> I don't see a problem. Sure, some of the tooltips are long but Allan> you have to have your mouse over a button for them to appear. I Allan> have no problem with this. Tooltips appearing all over dialogs is bad taste IMO. But not verybody can be as gifted with good taste as I am :) Allan> The thing I do have a problem with is that it is not really a Allan> "What's this?" mechanism. The new cursor shape implies that I Allan> should click on something that I'm asking about -- as learned Allan> by using KDE just once. Agreed (but since I was the one who proposed some of this stuff to Angus, maybe I should not say it publicly). Allan> AFAIAC we should just allow enable/disable of the tooltips and Allan> leave the cursor alone. The code that is in CVS works fine Allan> otherwise (ie. get rid of the "?" cursor and all is excellent). Maybe. >> BTW, we will need an icon for this toggle, since operating tooltips >> is a mouse-based thing. Allan> Seems to be getting more and more complicated. OK, forget about it. Allan> BTW, I'm inclined to think that if we must have a menu entry Allan> for this then is should be Edit->Tooltips [] (located near the Allan> preferences stuff perhaps). Edit>Tooltips?? In which sense is this an edition action? Allan> As it is now it looks like it is a part of the documentation It is part of _Help_. What's wrong with that? Allan> and worse yet the proximity and similarity to the Documents Allan> menu had me wondering if it wasn't an indicator of a file I had Allan> opened. No, it is an indicator of lack of sleep. Allan> Can we set the marker for the current buffer in the documents Allan> menu to a different colour or shape so it doesn't look like a Allan> toggle? It would be difficult. But if people do not like it, I can just disable this code. It was just a quick idea I had one morning. JMArc
