Re: tooltips

Hehe,

Yep, well I'm in Australia now. I'll have to see if we can find a nicer
pixmap for that. It might take a bit of time since it's proving quite a
challange to get my self setup here :]

dctanner.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph J. McCarthy" <mccarthy@granular.che.pitt.edu>
To: "Tobias Grasl" <toby@grasl.com>
Cc: "Nils Faerber" <nils@kernelconcepts.de>; <gpe@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Gpe] tooltips

> >> For example in the todo application (sorry, no flame! I really like
> >> it!) I always wonder which icon-button does what and then I use the
> >> tooltip to figure out.
> >> But isn't the button misdesigned then? Shouldn't the button be much
> >> more self explanatory so that a tooltip becomes unnecessary?
> >
> > Actually, it was the use in the calendar that I liked - hover over
> > the date and it shows you the entry.
> >
>
> Toby:
>
> I dont believe that it will do anything if you "hover" over a date, but
> a single click will show you events in the month-view and a
> double-click (I believe) will do so in the year-view (we hope to
> re-write the year-view to be more like the month view one of these
> days!).
>
> Nils: Feels free to supply better pixmaps for the buttons! :)
> Seriously, I am sure that my show/hide yin/yang thing stinks, but I
> didnt have a better one.
>
> Any suggestions along those lines should go to dc (when he gets settled
> in Japan).
>
> Regards.
>
> Joe
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Received on Tue Jul 23 07:41:04 2002