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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:34, Robert Roth <evfool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> And yet another solution would be to show shortcuts with a sort of
> tooltips - and forgive me for saying that, don't want to hurt anyone -
> but for showing the hotkeys for multiple items the Office 2007 ribbon
> control is a good example. I can't stand the ribbon control, but the
> solution for showing tooltips is quite good IMHO. - see the crops
> attached
>

Yes, they have a good solution there, but honestly, it's not THE solution.

Look at it from an Ayatana point of view, it is not the optimum exploitation
of human attention focus while handling a DE...  adding more information to
a window full of buttons and options..