For what it's worth, I had noticed the balloon obscuring things and
wondered if there was a way to turn it off. But I shan't press the issue :)

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:36 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>
wrote:

> -1 That "novice mode" should be deprecated and removed in the long term.
> It makes no sense to make that binary decision between novice and
> non-novice.
>
> You can surely hack out that tooltip for your screenshot scenario. No need
> to have this in Trunk.
>
> Yet, I think you are on to something. Maybe a time-out for that balloon
> text?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 12.01.2022 21:27:31 schrieb commits at source.squeak.org <
> commits at source.squeak.org>:
> A new version of Morphic was added to project The Inbox:
> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Morphic-ct.1846.mcz
>
> ==================== Summary ====================
>
> Name: Morphic-ct.1846
> Author: ct
> Time: 12 January 2022, 9:27:12.594139 pm
> UUID: 0bf19b8c-e7ea-7145-9a79-b76aaaaa2543
> Ancestors: Morphic-ct.1845
>
> Proposal: Display that tedious "Enter text to narrow selection" tooltip
> only if novice mode is enabled.
>
> Many of us might not have noticed this balloon text any more that appears
> every time you open a menu (unless #menuKeyboardControl is disabled), but
> it still is irrelevant for non-novice users and sometimes occludes other
> relevant information, for instance, during screenshots.
>
> =============== Diff against Morphic-ct.1845 ===============
>
> Item was changed:
> ----- Method: MenuMorph>>popUpAt:forHand:in:allowKeyboard: (in category
> 'control') -----
> popUpAt: aPoint forHand: hand in: aWorld allowKeyboard: aBoolean
> "Present this menu at the given point under control of the given
> hand."
> | evt |
> aWorld submorphs
> select: [:each | (each isKindOf: MenuMorph)
> and: [each stayUp not]]
> thenCollect: [:menu | menu delete].
> self items isEmpty
> ifTrue: [^ self].
> MenuIcons decorateMenu: self.
> (self submorphs
> select: [:m | m isKindOf: UpdatingMenuItemMorph])
> do: [:m | m updateContents].
> "precompute width"
> self
> positionAt: aPoint
> relativeTo: (selectedItem
> ifNil: [self items first])
> inWorld: aWorld.
> aWorld addMorphFront: self.
> "Acquire focus for valid pop up behavior"
> hand
> newMouseFocus: self;
> showTemporaryCursor: nil.
> aBoolean
> ifTrue: [
> originalFocusHolder := hand keyboardFocus.
> hand newKeyboardFocus: self.
> + Preferences noviceMode ifTrue: [
> + self showKeyboardHelp]].
> - self showKeyboardHelp].
> evt := hand lastEvent.
> (evt isKeyboard
> or: [evt isMouse
> and: [evt anyButtonPressed not]])
> ifTrue: ["Select first item if button not down"
> self moveSelectionDown: 1 event: evt
> "Select first item if button not down"].
> self updateColor.
> self changed!
>
>
>
>
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