Alt text for menu Items?

[Simon Steinbeiß]

Hey Jeff,

not as far as I know.
You can try to file a bugreport/issue on github[0] and ask the developer for this option and argue why you think it's necessary.
Alternatively you can always switch back to the old application menu.

Cheers
Simon

[0] https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/issues



On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:20:46 -0500
Jeff Hanson <jephhanson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Simon, That is helpful, I didn't realize there were additional menu
> options when right clicking on the menu.
> 
> We were actually looking to get the descriptions when hovering the mouse
> over the application. The option you suggested lists them under the name
> and makes the menus much longer. Not saying we're necessarily against this
> option, but thought the hover over as we've had in the past might be best?
> 
> Also just saw the "show generic application names" option which we're
> thinking about as well, because the KDE names for a lot of the educational
> programs can be confusing to first time computer users.
> 
> So I guess my question is still, Is there a way to get the hover over
> descriptions?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Simon Steinbeiß <simon at xfce.org> wrote:
>   
> > Hey Jeff,
> >
> > Great to hear! :)
> > You can simply go to the setting of whiskermenu (that's the name of the
> > new applications menu we're shipping) and tick the option "Show application
> > descriptions".
> > It won't show tooltips, but it should do what you want (if I understood
> > you correctly).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:44:15 -0500
> > Jeff Hanson <jeff at projectcc.org> wrote:
> >  
> > > Project:CC <http://projectcc.org> is creating their new Image with  
> > Xubuntu  
> > > 14.04 and so far we love it! But we van give a great review later. :)
> > >
> > > We noticed the items in the amazing new menu don't have any hover over  
> > "alt  
> > > text" giving the description of the program. This is pretty important to  
> > us  
> > > because we end up installing all 4 Edubuntu packs and some other things.  
> > So  
> > > there are a lot of great programs, but we are putting the software in  
> > labs  
> > > where people haven't used ubuntu, and the alt text can save some time!
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to turn this on?
> > >
> > > Again the new Xubuntu menu is exactly what we needed and even the menu
> > > editor is better. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!
> > >
> > > Also am I sending this to the right list again?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff Hanson
> > > Director of Operations
> > > Project: Community Computers
> > > 6087519139  
> >
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