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29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area

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Message #17 received at 52994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 52994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: bug#52994: 29.0.50; Help descriptions from menu bar items don't appear in the echo area
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:11:50 +0000

On 20 January 2022 10:16:01 GMT, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> I was under the impression that the help text appears in a tooltip. We
>> had a recent bug report where the wrong text was sometimes appearing
>> in the tooltip, but that should be fixed now, at least on master.
>>
>> I'd be surprised if there's no tooltip at all or the tooltip is empty,
>> it's a function provided by the toolkit.
>
>Do you mean on Macos or Debian?  In Macos, I'm getting no tooltips when
>using the menu.  (And I'd be surprised to be getting them, really,
>because the Macos menus are separated from the Emacs frame.)

Oh, sorry, I totally misread this and thought it was about the toolbar.

You're right, I don't expect tooltips to appear for menu items and I'm not sure whether it's even possible to update the Emacs frame while the menus are open.

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