Hi, On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 16:22 +0200, pgi@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > A short helpful text item like "tear-off" would not take make the menu a > single pixel larger nor would it "clutter" the menu more than a > meainingless line of hyphens. Yes, it would. It would distract the user's view from the actual menu entries and makes it harder to quickly scan the menu. > The "tear along the dotted line" that the current entry presumably is > supposed to represent has no meaning until you are aware of the feature > and what it is called. There is not analogy elsewhere this I am aware off > that would cause a user to understand this otherwise. Well, all other toolkits that have tear-off menus do it pretty much the same way and use pretty much the same visual representation. Having a tooltip on the menu might be a good idea. Please propose it to the GTK+ developers and stop discussing this here any further. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
