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Bug 636615 - Tooltips sometimes don't appear, requiring the user to move the mouse
Tooltips sometimes don't appear, requiring the user to move the mouse
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: .General
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 3.0
Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-06 16:51 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2011-11-13 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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screencast (260.27 KB, video/ogg)
2010-12-06 16:51 UTC, Jean-François Fortin Tam 		Details

Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-12-06 16:51:43 UTC 
Created attachment 175934 [details]
screencast

On toolbar buttons or other widgets (such as listview items), you often have to "wiggle" the mouse over a widget for its tooltip to appear... which is bad for usability/discoverability/etc.

See the attached screencast which should convey the problem much more easily than words.
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2010-12-06 16:54:02 UTC 
This problem doesn't seem to occur if you go from one toolbar button to another (ie "switching" tooltips), but only if your mouse cursor was outside the toolbar and then goes onto a toolbar button.
Comment 2 Joachim Breitner 2011-11-13 16:14:10 UTC 
This sounds like bug #633032 which may (or may not) be related to bug #516130.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2011-11-13 16:58:21 UTC 
Seems fixed in 3.0 (at least I couldn't reproduce it with gedit and evolution).