Re: [gnome-love] How to disable all tooltips

[Frank Joerdens <frank joerdens de>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Célio Ishikawa <nassifudeu gmail com> wrote:
> Well, I found how to disable tooltips of gnome-panel. Start gconf-editor
> (command-line or Applications menu- System tools - configuration editor),
> see the tree? Go /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enable, click there.

That trick is well-known and I'm using it on my Debian Squeeze (which
uses Gnome 2 by default) rig. However, it doesn't get rid of the ones
in the taskbar, for instance. It also doesn't work at all on Gnome 3
(yet?).

What would be awesome if you could actually block applications
categorically from emitting these pesky useless little things, but
it's probably not doable on a window manager or desktop environment
level. If all GUI apps were written in a consistent manner, invoking
the same code path for any tooltip primitive, you could just hack the
part of the GUI libs that exposes the funcionality ... oh well, I
don't even think there is any OS out there nowadays which would be
that consistent in the way you'd do each and every app (Haiku?).

It would be cool even if you could know the scope of the problem. Like
if you wanted to get rid of them all, with a typical Gnome system,
which libraries would you have to modify?

- Frank