Re: how does balloon-help work under X? Look & feel defaults

This is more part of the "defaults suck" thread than the "balloon-help" thread, I guess. Hrvoje> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes: Hrvoje> Extremely slow for me, even under X, even on ultrasparc. Hrvoje> Also, the borders and decorations are wrongly drawn with Hrvoje> many window managers. Does balloon-help.el really look Hrvoje> and feel well for you? I went and tried it again (after WmP pointed out that I obviously didn't remember how it worked very well---I still like my idea of balloon-help as a context-sensitive entry to more detailed help---but not enough to implement it). Once I followed the instructions for turning off wm decorations (which doesn't work for everybody, I do understand that), I was satisfied with the look. I'd probably change the background, and maybe the foreground, but that's easy with Custom, so not a big deal. I played with the delay parameter, and decided that 1000 msec was appropriate for me. I wouldn't really get too upset about the default 1500 msec delay, but I don't like balloon-help-like features much so that's probably not very informative. One thing I definitely didn't like about it was that riffling across the buttons on the toolbar produces a somewhat annoying flashing as tips pop up and down. This also seems to create a lot of X server activity, as the exposed area takes a noticable time to fill in. This is probably no longer than if the mouse leaves the toolbar, but more noticable as the empty area is right next to the new tip. There ought to be a second delay after moving into an "adjacent" button before its tip pops itself up. Probably with a 1000 msec primary delay I'd make it 500 msec (350 msec?) "Adjacent" would probably be defined as a maximum delay since the last tip popped down, since normally buttons with tips would be spatially separated by a few pixels (or are toolbar buttons truly adjacent for this purpose?) (That's probably too complicated, but I don't really grok the fine details of this kind of implementation, so feel free to twist my words into something that makes sense.) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Telfax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."