Re: UI issue: inactive menu entries and icons

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
>     I find it disturbing that inactive menu entries and toolbar icons
>     won't display their tooltip.  "What is this about?" is an interesting
>     question also when an item is inactive.  I actually find this
>     _particularly_ interesting since I would like to figure out what would
>     make such entries active.  Not getting the tooltip for them makes this
>     more difficult.
>
> That is an interesting point, and maybe Emacs should display those
> tooltips.  Does anyone see an argument against it?
>
> Anyway, is it Emacs that makes the choice, or is it the GUI toolkit?

As for not displaying tooltips for inactive tool bar items, it is the GUI 
toolkit (i.e. GTK).  Tooltips are displayed for inactive tool bar items for 
the native tool bar.

As for menus, this is the toolkit also, but now Lesstif/Motif, Lucid and GTK 
are involved.

I can relatively easy fix this for GTK (tool bar and menu) and probably Lucid 
as well (menu).  I haven't looked very hard att Lesstif/Motif yet.

Of these, I think only the GTK tool bar issue could be considered a bug, as 
tool tips for inactive menu items has not been shown previously.

Should I fix the GTK tool bar before the release or just leave it till after?

        Jan D.