Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Activity Monitor: memory question Date: 27 Oct 2015 01:44:38 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <562d4274$0$25235$c3e8da3$e408f015@news.astraweb.com> <562d8ceb$0$62743$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> <562e96e0$0$7368$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> <562eafa8$0$5970$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net NRJfnzZUUf4EYso9tmv/CwAPXeyIvubVDYBvhO13PhrEJ8B0Xp Cancel-Lock: sha1:E6IzefydL0cex7QfrOJ1uih6A70= sha1:J7hN8Zsz++dmkhT0zv9e5D8tZ8c= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:84303 Barry Margolin wrote: > In article , > Snit wrote: >> >> I think it would make more sense for the hover text to say "Quit process" - >> but really, is this a big deal? > > When they first wrote the code, that was the label text. Putting the > same thing in the tool tip would be redundant, it should be a little > more verbose. > > But why should removing the label mean that they should make the tool > tip *less* verbose? The problem with the tool tip is it doesn't indicate the user will have a choice between a normal quit and a force quit operation, because it explicitly says "force quit". -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR