Re: Inplace Tips for GtkTreeView (#346992)

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/18/06, Michael Urman <murman gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've put together a demo-ready patch for a feature I would like to see
> available in GTK+, and am looking for guidance on how to proceed. If
> it is deemed potentially worth including into GTK+, I am willing to do
> the code work to make it production-ready, especially if I can get
> some assistance. If there's no chance of it going in, I don't want to
> waste my time.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346992
>
> In short the feature pops up a small window that looks like a tooltip
> under the cursor when it hovers over a cell that is either partially
> concealed by a scrolled window, or has been shortened due to text
> ellipsization. Because it is directly under the cursor, unlike a
> normal tooltip, button and keyboard events must be relayed to the
> underlying treeview. I've used a similar but external python hack and
> find I miss it in other apps.
>
> I put a movie demoing this (including current implementation bugs) at
> http://www.tortall.net/~mu/inplace-tips-346992.ogg in case applying
> and finding an app to test the patch is difficult.
>
> I'm looking for the following:
>  * Confirmation that it's worth the time to complete the patch, or
> confirmation that it would be wasted time.
>  * If it's worth the time, pointers to documentation on how to
> properly handle reference counting in GTK+ so the code can be made
> production-ready.
>  * Optionally someone to champion the process of getting this into
> GTK+, or someone else who wants to complete the patch.
>  * Any comments on how to improve the behavior or the code.
>
> I've gotten only a tepid response in IRC, so I'm trying to figure out
> if that's due to disinterest, lack of time, or lack of exposure.

Kris is going to post his new tooltips implementation any day
now -- right, Kris ?

I'd recommend holding off until that happens to see how this
fits together.

Matthias