Richard Stallman wrote: A discussion in November 2002, based on noting that Windows menus have a "What's This" feature, concluded that (present and former) Windows users would recognize the name "What's This" and know what to do with it. So it would help them.
I have never been a Windows user, so I can't judge for myself. Do those here with Windows experience agree that that menu item will be understood by many users? I can not tell about MS Windows either, but I have played around with the KDE "What's This" feature and that appears to do something very different. In Emacs, if you select "What's This", nothing happens to the mouse cursor shape and if you then click mouse-1 in the minibuffer, the `mouse-drag-region' docstring shows up in an Emacs buffer. From playing around with the KDE feature, I would guess that a KDE user would expect the mouse cursor shape to change to an arrow with a question mark and if you then click in the minibuffer, a reasonably large tooltip would pop up explaining what this area is used for (as echo area and as minibuffer). In other words, in KDE the "this" in "What's This" seems to refer to the area in which you click and, as I pointed out before, if you click on a menu bar item, usually no doc whatsoever pops up. Anyway, it would seem that one way or the other, it should be possible to come up with a single name that can be reasonably understood by everybody, regardless of the operating system they are using. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
