Comment 64 for bug 15495

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smilingfrog (smilingfrog) wrote :

An interesting thing about this papercut is that it is primarily trying to help explain what the function of a right clicked menu item will be for a user who is not already familiar with it. What about adding a description that pops up on the menu when hovering over the selection, similar to the way a text box opens up when hovering over an HTML image described with a title tag?

An example of this would be as follows. Assuming you are reading this in Firefox, and assuming that you have the NoScript add-on installed (and that some scripts are forbidden), right click on this page and hover over the NoScript.

Similarily, as suggested by @sub.mesa above under Applications->Accessories->Terminal, if you hover over the Terminal it gives you a description (All panel items do so).

Would this papercut not become a great deal less troublesome if the Nautilus right click menus also could pop up a short description of the function?