Subject: Re: bug#51658: [PATCH] Haiku port (again)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:41:37 +0200

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 21:33:29 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> Is that limitation important enough to mention?  It is not something
> >> that is likely to happen at all.
> 
> > maybe I don't understand something: tooltips for menu items are
> > routinely shown in Emacs, so how come you say it is unlikely to
> > happen?
> 
> Basically, tooltips for menu bar items get shown in the echo area
> instead, because it's impossible to display tooltips above the menu bar.

So this is not "unlikely" to happen, right?  As soon as the user tries
to use the menu-bar menus, the help-echo text will be shown in the
echo-area and not as a tooltip, right?  If so, I think this is very
important to mention in the Haiku appendix.