XEmacs opinion for preview-latex required...

Hi, preview-latex contains in its mode setup (and preview-use-balloon-help (not (and (boundp 'balloon-help-mode) balloon-help-mode)) (balloon-help-minor-mode 1)) and preview-use-balloon-help defaults to t. Previews and preview icons get equipped with help mostly indicating something like "press mouse 2 to show text, mouse 3 for context menu" or "press mouse 2 for PostScript error, mouse 3 for source code"). It is usually obvious, also from the cursor change, that something might happen upon clicking, and the previous case where mouse 3 deleted the preview (which annoyed people who are obviously used to checking things out by clicking on them) has been replaced by a context menu in recent versions. On the other hand, we have received several complaints about the balloon-help-mode which seemingly results from this mode being not so very "native". The consequences are that the windows that pop up are fully decorated and tend to interfere with the focus. Apparently, this situation is quite worse on Windows. I have no idea whether the Windows situation has improved anything over the last few years, but how to switch balloon help of has made it into the preview-latex FAQ. It would appear that outside of preview-latex, ballon-help-mode is used rather rarely, and it may show, particular on some platforms. Are there any guidelines about whether a minor mode that goes to the pain of tagging everything with balloon-help properties should actively enable the mode? It is obvious that 90% of all users will not bother changing a given default or reading documentation and will never discover a feature that does not hit them squarely in the face. Would you recommend not using this by default nevertheless? We have one case of rather "non-obvious" mouse use, namely the one on error indicators where mouse 2 takes one to the corresponding PostScript error, and mouse 3 to the source file. Do you have any suggestions for a behavior which would be "more natural" and thus not require a balloon help for using? Ignore mouse2 completely, context menu with the two possibilities on mouse 3? Identical context menu on both mouse buttons? Go to error directly with mouse2, context menu on mouse3? What would be the XEmacs way of doing this? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum