Re: patch: show_ui_tooltip

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:08:23AM +0200, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:14:04PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> > On Mi, Sep 11, 2013, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:34:06PM +0200, corvid wrote:
> > > > Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
> > > 
> > > What about using the existing prefs.show_tooltip variable for both
> > > types of tooltips? I would guess that someone either likes / wants
> > > tooltips or not independent of whether it's for the UI or the page
> > > contents.
> > 
> > Tooltips are useful to get an idea what an (simple to recognize, but
> > otherwise per se unrelated to the meaning) icon is for. (At least for
> > me, the text "Reload" makes much more sense than two bent arrows
> > pointing to each other's tail).
> > 
> > After some while, a user remembers the icon, so she does not need the
> > text anymore; and I guess that icons are faster to realise than text.
> > On the other hand, this argument does not count for (new) web pages,
> > where the meaning of the icons is not yet known.
> > 
> > For this reason, my opinion is that a distinction is not completely
> > pointless.
> 
> Ok, I'm fine with two separate variables too.

 +1

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