Re: Callback based tooltips (Re: New tooltips API, continued)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 6 Apr 2006, at 09:00, Tim Janik wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Alex Graveley wrote:
>
> > I sounds good to me, as long as I can force a tooltip to display  
> > on-demand as it would if the mouse were hovering over it.
>
> hm, can you please explain the use case for forefully displaying  
> tooltips?
> as opposed to waiting for the usual user configurable timeout and  
> honour
> user settings like display-tooltips = off ?

Haven't really been following this discussion, but I hope people are  
remembering that in gtk, tooltips are supposed to be available on  
demand from the keyboard (by pressing Shift-F1), so any new scheme  
should ensure this continues to work.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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