Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

[Richard Shann]

I have just noticed a knock-on effect of the tooltip speed becoming
uncontrollable with Gtk version > 3.10 (which is causing us to disable
tooltips for these more modern versions of Gtk).
Now, the palette buttons have no tooltip of course, but, worse, they
have no help at all, since the help is only stored in the widget as a
tooltip.

I think this needs fixing before release, but quite how I'm not sure. I
think the gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text() could become a
g_object_set_data() to attach the help text to the widget and some
alternative to tooltips could be used to display it.

If anyone has other suggestions as to how to work around the deluge of
tooltips that result as you move the cursor around a palette of buttons
please say.

Richard


On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:54 +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:26:18 +0000
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > In any case there need to be a (global but application overridable)
> > > setting to control the initial delay before a tooltip pops up. The fact
> > > that subsequent tooltips pop up immedeately is a bug. Period.
> 
> For the sake of clarity: a Gnome bug.
> 
> > > Denemo is overpopulated with tooltips. Everything (except for the main
> > > canvas) has tooltips.  
> > 
> > No, the main canvas has one too. The bug is that more of them need to be
> > subject to the "newbie" flag - please raise a bug for that.
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?46515
> 
> > > ...
> > However, this is all a bit academic because it looks like we have to
> > drop tooltips altogether or become Gtk2 only. (If we support any version
> > of Gtk3 on GNU/Linux then the Distros will want to use the latest Gtk
> > version).
> 
> Too true, unfortunately.
> 
> -- Johan
> 
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