I find the view expressed here on using an on/off settng only extremely shortsighted and limited. I develop apps and use apps and there a many scenarios whre I want some tools tips really fast (like variable values when hovering over a variable in a debugger) and others very slow, like menues I am used to.
People being "interested or not" in tooltips is a supremely oversimplified assumption. On 11/18/2015 06:27 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Hi; > > On 18 November 2015 at 11:16, Richard Shann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I've tracked this down, in the latest manual for gtk3: >> > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-tooltip-browse-timeout >> > GtkSettings:gtk-tooltip-browse-timeout has been deprecated since version >> > 3.10 and should not be used in newly-written code. >> > This setting is ignored. >> > >> > So, it is a "feature". It appears to be the case that even the regular >> > time before a tooltip appears can no longer be controlled, which many >> > people will find intolerable (I know of people who set very long times >> > on the tooltips, basically because it takes them long enough to read the >> > labels on menu items, so that having tooltips pop up while they are >> > looking for something is annoying - they would take a long time to read >> > a tooltip anyway). >> > I think we'll have to disable tooltips for GTK version 3.10 and above. >> > Fortunately the tooltip information is still available for commands, >> > it's just all the help for playback controls etc etc that will get lost. > I honestly don't understand why would application developers expose a > tweak to ensure their applications don't behave like any other > application on the system. > > If the people that are not interested in tooltips, and thus change the > timeout to ensure that they are not subject to them, then you can > simply offer a way to disable all tooltips on your controls without > any loss of functionality — after all, these people are not interested > in tooltips in the first place. > > If this is an accessibility issue, like you seem to present it, then > we definitely need a session-wide toggle that changes the delay for a > tooltip to be raised for all applications, not just one. That would be > a great thing to introduce in the session, and I'd be happy to review > a patch to that effect. > _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
