Re: tooltips

On 09 Jul 2002 17:25:01 +0100
Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 17:06, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > Don't use them in your programs, tell other authors not to use them,
> > create patches to remove them.
> I think this would be a retrograde step. Widgets like toolbars already
> provide explicit hooks for tooltip text; given that we need some way to
> display interactive help, this seems like as good a method as any to
> hang the data off the objects. It also means that on a desktop system,
> where tooltips are actually valuable, they come for free.

Hmm ... good point ;)

> What would probably be better would be to override the tooltip class
> with one that behaves differently on pen-based systems. In the worst
> case we could arrange this by having it inspect some property on the
> root window, perhaps placed there by the same application that hides the
> pointer.

Pointer hiding is (at least on my iPaq) done by xclutter which is probably not the program we want to modify for this. Anyway, first we should find a solution to get rid of the tooltips or at least make them an option.

Do you know how to "override the tooltip class"? I for myself don't...

> p.
CU
  nils faerber

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