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On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:10 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>
> > I'd probably not notice it due to mental tooltip filters.  Perhaps a
> > popup when user tries to go into line (etc.) mode or enables these
> > modes while in line etc. mode
>
> The problem is, if you follow good GUI design, you disable buttons
> that can't be used at the moment, which means you can't trigger a
> popup from that button - because it's disabled.
>

Well that would be good too, that only leaves the other direction
(when you're already in line mode), I guess it could snap out of line
mode without notice but that would be a bit weird as well.

It would be lovely to have tooltips for all the menu items, I'd at least
mouse over once to learn what they all do.  As it is there are probably a
bunch of other things that would be useful to me that I don't know about.
If you would like to provide tooltip text for all the menu items I'll look
at adding it to the GUI.  Or maybe there was some reason we don't want
tooltips I remember a discussion but not the details.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
te">On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:10 PM, DJ Delorie <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:dj AT delorie DOT com" target=3D"_blank">dj AT delorie DOT com</a>&gt;</span>=
 wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bor=
der-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D""><br>
&gt; I&#39;d probably not notice it due to mental tooltip filters.=C2=A0 Pe=
rhaps a<br>
&gt; popup when user tries to go into line (etc.) mode or enables these<br>
&gt; modes while in line etc. mode<br>
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</span>The problem is, if you follow good GUI design, you disable buttons<b=
r>
that can&#39;t be used at the moment, which means you can&#39;t trigger a<b=
r>
popup from that button - because it&#39;s disabled.<br></blockquote><div><b=
r></div><div style=3D"">Well that would be good too, that only leaves the o=
ther direction</div><div style=3D"">(when you&#39;re already in line mode),=
 I guess it could snap out of line</div><div style=3D"">mode without notice=
 but that would be a bit weird as well.</div><div style=3D""><br></div><div=
 style=3D"">It would be lovely to have tooltips for all the menu items, I&#=
39;d at least mouse over once to learn what they all do.=C2=A0 As it is the=
re are probably a bunch of other things that would be useful to me that I d=
on&#39;t know about.=C2=A0 If you would like to provide tooltip text for al=
l the menu items I&#39;ll look at adding it to the GUI.=C2=A0 Or maybe ther=
e was some reason we don&#39;t want tooltips I remember a discussion but no=
t the details.</div><div>=C2=A0</div></div></div></div>

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