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RE: help echo (tooltip) for :link buttons in Customize


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: help echo (tooltip) for :link buttons in Customize
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:36:43 -0800

Oops - #2 is incorrect. This is a link, not a button. This means that it
should appear as a link, not a button.

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    The tooltip for a :link button in Customize says only this:
    "Follow link".

    1. This is useless - we might as well get rid of it, if we can't find
       something better.

    2. It is a button, not a link (from a user's perspective), so the text
       is anyway incorrect.

    3. If we keep such a tooltip, the text should be more specific, taking
       into account the particular kind of :link. For example, for
       `(url-link...)' we might use "Information on the Web" or "Find on
       the Web"; for `(emacs-commentary-link...)' we might use
       "Commentary" or "Library Commentary".

    4. If an associated :tag is available, we might use that as the help
       echo too - e.g. :tag "Download" could lead to a help echo with the
       same text; however, in this case, the help echo is truly
       unnecessary and unhelpful.


    In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
     of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
    X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
    configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.3) --cflags
    -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include
    -I../../tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include
    -I../../zlib-1.2.2/include'





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