Hello!

PCMan has written on Monday,  1 July, at 20:18:
>On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko <[email protected]> 
>wrote:
>>     I want your opinions on some questionable subject. With libfm master
>> sources the context menu in pcmanfm can show tooltips for menu items. It
>> is used now for 'Open with...' list of applications and it is very useful
>> there. I'm not sure though if it may be useful (or opposite, clutter the
>> space) for usual context menu items such as 'Rename' or 'Paste'. What do
>> you think? Is it reasonable to set them or not?

>I'd suggest adding this tip to status bar instead of floating tooltips.
>This is more consistent with other GUI programs and other OSes (such
>as Windows).
>You can see how Thunar does it.
>Other Gnome programs do it, too, but the code of Thunar is more readable.
>I have a branch doing this long time ago.
>http://pcmanfm.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pcmanfm/pcmanfm;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/statusbar
>But it's still a work in progress and was left there for 3 years.
>You may continue with it, if possible.

    I'm afraid that statusbar thing may be complicated and it needs still
to be implemented and well tested. So let it be done in the next release,
not now. If you think floating tooltips aren't appropriate then I would
not write them. Thank you for the opinion. :)

    Cheers!
    Andriy.

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