On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > Now I understand the desire from Allan to turn tooltips off.
>
> Not quite. I like the longer descriptions but once I know what thinsg
> do I want to be able to turn them off.
I've said it before: you're a develpoer and you can edit the source if
you want them off.
The question is not what you want.
> This shorter suggestion is a bit confusing. Maybe:
>
> "Show the labels of another opened document."
This is probably better, although why "opened" ?
> "Select a source for inter-document references."
A little jargonistic perhaps. It makes my eyes tired reading this...
> We need to convey the purpose of *and* how to use the widget. Not
> a simple task in a space and vocabulary restricted tooltip.
It never is ...
> It would be nice to have an extra sentence warning of the need for the
> two documents to be part of the same multi-part document so LaTeX
> processing succeeds but then again we should be filtering the files
> that are available in the list anyway shouldn't we?
Yes, we should. Is that easy/possible ?
> I don't think so. It's a matter of keeping clear, consise and correct
> -- length by itself isn't a problem. Then the tooltips are at least
"keep concise ... length by itself isn't a problem" ... umm ?
> useful even if they do cover some of the other dialogs widgets (which
By the time the tooltip appears, the user has already homed to the
target widget, so this is not a problem
regards
john
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