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bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken
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martin rudalics |
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bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken |
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Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:26:40 +0100 |
>> That when the behavior of 'x-show-tip' changes,
>> applications will have to adapt.
>
> That's even more vague - not a clarification at all.
> What is the behavior change? What kind of adaptation
> are you hinting at?
That if for some reason the behavior of that function must be changed,
its callers may have to change too.
>> Currently there are no plans to replace 'x-show-tip' AFAICT.
>
> Let's not quibble over the word "replace", please.
>
> You imply that "the behavior of 'x-show-tip'" will
> change. That's what I'm asking about, in talking
> about "replacement".
'x-show-tip' had a bug that has been hopefully fixed. I did not imply
anything else.
> You also said that we should not use 'x-show-tip'
> but should use only `tooltip-show', which is much
> more limited - not a substitute for 'x-show-tip'
> at all.
I'm using 'x-show-tip' in my private code, so why should I say such a
thing.
> The question is, if `x-tool-tip' is not expected
> to be replaced, but it is expected to change, just
> _how_ is it expected to change?
>
> Will we be able to do with the "new" `x-show-tip',
> what we can do with it now, even if we must "adapt"
> in some way to be able to do that?
Hopefully so.
> You are being quite vague, it seems. You make a
> pronouncement that we should not use the function,
> but also that it will change - somehow.
I did neither the former nor the latter.
> The real question is not the words to name the
> impending change or replacement that you warn us
> about.
>
> The question is how, after the change/replacement,
> to get done everything we can do now with that
> function.
Let's see to that when we're there.
martin
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/08
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, martin rudalics, 2018/02/09
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Stephen Berman, 2018/02/09
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Drew Adams, 2018/02/09
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, martin rudalics, 2018/02/10
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Drew Adams, 2018/02/10
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, martin rudalics, 2018/02/11
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Drew Adams, 2018/02/11
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken,
martin rudalics <=
- bug#30399: 27.0.50; tooltips are broken, Drew Adams, 2018/02/12