Alt text for menu Items?

[Jeff Hanson]

Awesome, thanks for the great info Simon!
We'll probably switch things up on a lab to lab basis and see what scenerio
works best.

Jeff


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Simon Steinbeiß <simon at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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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