From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Limbo Tk FAQ?
Message-ID: <20010525152803.S21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
References: <20010524185028.F1E14199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu> <20010525065834.K21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za> <07de01c0e518$72b7fc50$e8b7c6d4@SOMA>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In-Reply-To: <07de01c0e518$72b7fc50$e8b7c6d4@SOMA>; from Boyd Roberts on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:44:32PM +0200
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:28:04 +0200
Topicbox-Message-UUID: a835a9a6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:44:32PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> 
> toolbars are yet another demonstration of a broken design.
> if it was obvious what the icons did you wouldn't need
> the text to pop up when you mouse over them.
> 
Not that I don't agree with your sentiments, but in defense of
tooltips, I will say that they are more convenient than manuals.
Once you're familiar with an icon's meaning, which you need not be
as you first encounter it (imagine not having to learn road signs,
and specially not being examined on them for licence purposes),
you can turn the tooltips off.

Not that I ever do.

(I have this image of driving along a country road and having tooltips
appear appear on the windscreen as I approach each road sign.)

Another _good_thing_ about tooltips is that they are precisely
where you would want them to be.  You can search a toolbar very
readily with tooltips.  Doing the same in a manual, or, God forbid,
a hierarchy of help pages, is highly detrimental to your mental
health.

++L