Bug 479107 - Tooltip for Window Title
Tooltip for Window Title
Status: NEW
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
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: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
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Depends on: 491114
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Reported: 2007-09-21 21:18 UTC by Kevin Duffus
Modified: 2008-06-02 16:23 UTC (History)
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GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

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Description Kevin Duffus 2007-09-21 21:18:45 UTC 
It would be nice if Metacity could produce a tooltip when mousing over the title bar text if the window's title was been ellipsized.
Comment 1 Thomas Thurman 2007-10-19 18:49:29 UTC 
That's a good idea: I'll think about ways to do that.
Comment 2 Thomas Thurman 2008-03-03 18:25:29 UTC 
See also bug 491114.
Comment 3 Ted Percival 2008-03-07 06:59:05 UTC 
Kevin, did you mean truncated? Title bars are never ellipsized as far as I can tell. (Metacity 2.23.0, Clearlooks theme.)
Comment 4 Ted Percival 2008-03-07 07:02:12 UTC 
(That wasn't meant to sound so rude.) Maybe a particular application shows an ellipsized window title.
Comment 5 Kevin Duffus 2008-06-02 16:23:18 UTC 
Ted: no worries. i didn't take your comment as being offensive. i don't recall exactly which app ellipsized its window title but it does appear that a lot of the apps in GNOME have their title's truncated when it exceeds the length of the window. Bug summary updated.
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