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Bug 617478 - Tooltip is a nuisance
Tooltip is a nuisance
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk-doc
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.16
Assigned To: gtk-doc maintainers
gtk-doc maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-02 22:08 UTC by Tony Houghton
Modified: 2010-06-11 09:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Tony Houghton 2010-05-02 22:08:12 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".
Comment 1 Frederic Peters 2010-06-10 12:05:34 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) 2010-06-10 14:19:47 UTC
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 ...
Comment 3 Stefan Sauer (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) 2010-06-11 09:02:26 UTC
commit 2905a797cd428545dcbbc2ccc45ff63830c695a6
Author: Stefan Kost <ensonic@users.sf.net>
Date:   Fri Jun 11 12:01:01 2010 +0300

    xsl: work-around for bug #617478