On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Erik Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts. I agree; I certainly wouldn't want to clutter > up the interface. Typically, the "tool tip delay" should be set such > that an experienced user would never see the tool tips. Only when > hovering long enough should they pop up.... but not TOO long. There's > a delicate balance. Perhaps my terminology is wrong for what I > describe as "tooltips" for menu items. These definitely exist in some > GTK software, like Gnome, and Gimp. Try it out, you'll see them pop up > for many menu items (and of course, tool buttons) if you hover long > enough.
I haver no strong feelings about where the tooltips should better be shown, but I'd just like to note we should try to use existing pieces of software both as inspiration and reference. For instance, if GIMP is showing tooltips after 500ms I think we should do the same. The same goes for where to put them; being also open source, we can surely check other projects' sources and copycat the method that suits best the current rawstudio codebase. One last thought: it may be also worth spending some time on reading and conforming to the GNOME HIGs (Human Inetrface Guidelines) here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ Just my 0.02 Gianluca -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlucasforna _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
