Re: tooltips

On 2002.07.10 07:16 Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 15:54, Joseph J. McCarthy wrote:
> > Is it possible to have the tooltips appear when you left-click and
> > *hold* (so that simply hovering over it does nothing?).
>
> One possible solution (though not actually the one you suggested) is
> now
> implemented in libgpewidget 0.10. If the GPE_STYLUS_MODE property on
> the root window is set, GPE programs will disable tooltips and make
> the
> cursor invisible.
>
> There is a small utility to set this property included in the
> libgpewidget source directory: gcc -o stylus-mode stylus-mode.c
> `gtk-config --cflags` `gtk-config --libs` should build it. Of course,
> this really needs to be set automatically based on the hardware in
> use.
>
> p.
>

I am a little confused.

My suggestion is actually identical to what gpe-appmgr uses to get to
the icon "menus".

Since no one actually *told* me about these menus (I simply *found*
them myself), I would argue that the "hold" method is not that
counter-intuitive.

What really confuses me though is the fact that *turning off* tooltips
seems to be in higher favor that simply changing them in an innocent
(but perhaps never-to-be-found) way. The worst case scenario of my
suggestion is that people never actually use the tooltips (which is
identical to having them turned off!), while the best case is that
tooltips become useful in a non-annoying way.

That will be 0.02 American please :)

Joe
Received on Wed Jul 10 2002 - 12:30:40 EDT