GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 156581
Adds gtk_tooltips_set_tip_widget()
Last modified: 2007-02-28 17:13:08 UTC
The attached patch adds a gtk_tooltips_set_tip_widget() call to the GtkTooltips API. As the name says, it allows to use a widget as tooltip. This feature has been lacking for too long, and would be extremely useful for applets, notification icons and the like.
Created attachment 33121 [details] [review] adds gtk_tooltips_set_tip_widget()
I don't see why a popup from an applet, notification icon, etc, is a tooltip.
What do you mean by "popup"?
A little window that gets displayed attached to another window. Like a tootlip. But not necessarily displayed on mouse over, and not necessarily popped up when the user hits Control-F1, and not necessarily with a yellow background,.
Ok. How do you think an applet could use a tooltip displaying more than just plain text (ie. an image, or marked-up text) without having to reimplement gtktooltips.c?
Displaying markup or images is simply not supported in gtk tooltips currently. This will certainly be considered when refactoring the tooltips system, as currently discussed on gtk-devel-list. But adding arbitrary widgets just doesn't seem like a very good fit with the use cases for tooltips.
What else do you suggest for adding some "multimedia" content to a tooltip? Incorporating a modified gtktooltips.c into every application?
For the record, I have personally reimplemented tooltips from scratch once, to get this feature. And I have intimately interacted with two other reimplementations, both of which were written to get this feature. This feature is needed very very badly.
This is implemented in the new GtkTooltips code scheduled for 2.12.