GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 617478
Tooltip is a nuisance
Last modified: 2010-06-11 09:02:26 UTC
Please do something about the tooltip which shows the section title when the pointer is over the main body of the browser. It nearly always gets in the way of something I want to read. The nuisance far outweighs its usefulness. Most sections aren't too long for their titles to scroll off my screen before I reach the end, so I don't need the tooltip at all, but if some people wouldn't want to see the feature removed altogether please provide an option or maybe replace it with a status bar. PS I didn't simply forget to downgrade the severity, it really does annoy me enough for it not to be just "minor" or potential for "enhancement".
This is because gtk-doc creates elements with a title attribute (for example <div class="book" title="GDK Reference Manual">); I am reassigning this bug report to gtk-doc.
You mean the docbook xsl stylesheet create that html and the browser shows it as a tooltip (which is interesting too). I see if I can easily get rid of it - but it is certainly not gtk-docs fault ...
commit 2905a797cd428545dcbbc2ccc45ff63830c695a6 Author: Stefan Kost <ensonic@users.sf.net> Date: Fri Jun 11 12:01:01 2010 +0300 xsl: work-around for bug #617478