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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: K-Menu Names
From:       "Richard J.Moore" <rich () xmelegance ! org>
Date:       2002-01-14 16:51:35
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On Monday 14 January 2002 2:49 pm, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 09:21, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > John Firebaugh wrote:
> > > IMO, the extended titles in the K-Menu need to be removed. Many of the
> > > names are cut off, and the menu is still much too wide. Even as a
> > > default setting, this is likely to annoy more than help. I predict that
> > > most users will immediately want to turn it off.
> > >
> > > The extra information belongs in a tooltip, not the main text.
> >
> > I had the feeling that there was an agreement when this was discussed
> > last week on kde-core-devel. I don't have religious feelings about this
> > issue myself so if you volunteer to move the comment to a tooltip and
> > the list agrees thats fine with me.
>
> I would agree, for me there is no real difference between having it as a
> tooltip or in the menu itselft, but the tooltip would make the menus
> smaller and cleaner ;)

Tooltips in menus are a bad idea from a UI point of view. Please don't do 
this.

Rich.

>
> cu
> Christoph
>
> > Greetings,
> > Matthias
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