Re: Tooltips and menus

[Richard Stallman]

    If that's too radical a concept for people to swallow, another idea is
    to remove tooltips for menu entries that open up submenus.  Tthat's
    what the Gnome menu does, and will probably solve the particular
    problem that Richard noticed.

That could be a good idea.  After all, when you put the mouse
on such an item, you see the whole submenu to give you added
information, which gives you more information than a tooltip would.

(The submenu could even have a title to explain its overall purpose
if that is not self-evident.)