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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: K-Menu Names
From:       Daniel Molkentin <molkentin () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-15 19:51:33
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On Monday 14 January 2002 17:51, Richard J.Moore wrote:
>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.

I don't see the point here. For normal menus, I agree, but the K Menu needs to 
be more verbose than any other menu. Tooltips are delayed, so they won't 
distrub the user commonly. Never forget: they can provide real help to 
unexpirienced users.

Cheers,

</daniel>

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