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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: K-Menu Names
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-16 3:22:58
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On Tuesday 15 January 2002 14:51, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> 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
> >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.

The so-wide K-menu is _ugly_. Tooltips on menus are bad style/GUI-design.

IMHO we would need a better solution. What about an equivalent of the 
"what's_this" mechanism? I.e., some checkbox in the menu that would pop up a 
tooltip-like largish pad somewhere near the menu and in which helpful text 
(even more that what a tooltip or the current inlined comments could provide) 
would be printed as mouse pointer hovers the menu items. Once a menu item is 
clicked, the largish pad is hidden/deleted and the checkbox unchecked again 
(or have a tristate checkbox? - "show the pad never/once/always")

My humble opinion.

CT
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