[Rawstudio-dev] Re: tooltips

[oleksandr korneta]

on 06/02/2008 07:40 PM Erik Buehler wrote:
> GTK gurus: I'm researching how to beef up the tooltips in RawStudio.
> I've figured out how to add some of them, but adding tooltips for menu
> items is less obvious. Can someone throw a hint as to what else I need
> to do to get tooltips to show up for menus?

Let me share some of my humble experience. Recalling some pieces of 
software I've been usingin my life, and particularly those with cleverly 
designed interface, I remember that the tooltip is something that always 
pops up near the mouse cursor when you hovering over the button or some 
other interface items loke sliders or editable text fields. In contrary 
to that, the tooltip is never used when one hovers the menu item. 
Instead, the status bat text changes, providing extensive hint on 
particular item (note, this is also applicable to the context menu 
items). Right now, the rawstudio statusbas says "Ready" whatever you do, 
so that useful space is not utilized at all.


Another issue. I personally always appreciate the tooltips whenever I am 
in process of learning the software or, is I use it too rarely to 
memorize anything. If once is using rawstudio on a daily basis I'm 
afraid the popping up tooltips, obscuring the interface and the image 
might be really annoying. Thus, thing in advance about making this thing 
optional, by providing some "Disable the tooltips"  checkbox in 
"Preferences".


and thank you for the wonderful piece of software

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

I'm running FC7 x86_64 and FC8 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./