GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 470908
Tooltips frequently appear below menus
Last modified: 2014-07-25 19:30:48 UTC
This bug has been filled here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/134955 "Open the "Applications" menu Highlight "Accessories" Wait for tooltip to appear Highlight "Games", underneath Notice that the tooltip appears immediately, but the menu appears a short while later. The menu obscures the tooltip. This does not always happen the first time, try moving backwards and forwards between items and it will eventually happen. Tooltips should have the highest Z order than any other window class." thanks.
This did not happen with the old tooltips code, because tooltips didn't show up at all on menu items with sub menus. For the record: I was told that menu items with sub menus no longer show tooltips with gnome-panel from trunk. So this is something new we need to handle, there are a few possibilities how: - Popdown the tooltip on visibility notify (though this leaves little chance for a tooltip on a menu item with sub menu to pop up). - Or; on_visibility_notify(): if (has_ancestor (tooltip_widget, TYPE_MENU_ITEM)) raise (tip_window); else unmap (tip_window); which is kind of hackish. - Or; always raise on visibility-notify. This could be nasty if another application pops up a window above the tooltip; the tooltip would raise beyond that again. We will be tracking more ideas here and come to a solution.
closing old bugs