Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday February 19 2009, John E. Perry wrote:
So at a minimum, they could be more selective and show the full names only when that information actually does disambiguate the overall list. Even better would be something like a tooltip that pops up with the
Will Stephenson wrote: path when you hover over the name. That would solve the OP's problem _and_ disambiguate the names.
Ugh. Tooltips are getting out of control lately. Take the tooltips that appeared in a recent minor revision KMail when you hover over a mailbox in the mailbox list. Very obtrusive. And if you look at the Java IDE IDEA (sometimes called IntelliJ after its original vendor), you'll see the extreme of tooltips. They drive me nuts.
Sometimes tooltips have irritated me, too, especially those that come up with no delay, and those that give no real information. But when used well in appropriate settings, they are a huge advance over either the kind of obtrusive excess of information the OP complained about (which Will's scheme wouldn't really help, in my opinion), or the total absence of helpful information that the path information was supposed to fix. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org