<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Awesome, thanks for the great info Simon! </div>We'll probably switch things up on a lab to lab basis and see what scenerio works best. </div>Jeff </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Simon Steinbeiß <<a href="mailto:simon@xfce.org" target="_blank">simon@xfce.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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] <a href="https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/issues</a> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:20:46 -0500 Jeff Hanson <<a href="mailto:jephhanson@gmail.com">jephhanson@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:simon@xfce.org">simon@xfce.org</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:jeff@projectcc.org">jeff@projectcc.org</a>> wrote: > > > > > Project:CC <<a href="http://projectcc.org" target="_blank">http://projectcc.org</a>> 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 > > > <a href="tel:6087519139" value="+16087519139">6087519139</a> > > > > -- > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>