GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 65490
Want to see tooltips also for disabled buttons
Last modified: 2008-03-31 08:05:38 UTC
Why don't tooltips show for disabled button as well? I think they should. Could this be a settig in Control Center?
Doesn't make any sense to me as a setting. Either should work or shouldn't. It's hard to fix, because events simply aren't sent to disabled widgets... probably easiest fixed in the planned rewrite of GtkTooltips for GTK+-2.2.
I agree on the settings thing, that it would be redundant. But I still think that tooltips are required for disabled buttons as well, as it may serve simply an educational purpose. At the same time, I couldn't find a good reason saying it's annoying seeing tooltips or so.
Move bugs which are tracking planned 2.4 features to the proper target milestones.
Tooltips would be really useful to find out _why_ something is disabled.
I'd like to suggest increasing the Severity of this bug. It seems to me more than a trivial shortcoming to not be able to provide tooltips for disabled / grayed out UI elements. For example in Gimp it is truely far from obvious why some menu items or buttons are grayed out, and a tooltip would be a perfect way to tell the user. Perhaps solutions to this bug and bug 70372 are connected?
Agreed about severity, I'm also trying to display tooltips about why these controls are disabled. Anyone have a workaround ? I've been trying to put my disabled widget in an event box, but no luck so far.
this is somewhat related to bug 50610. tooltips should be reworked to support something like a per-widget signal to query the current tip for the current mouse pointer position (regardless of the widget type). such a callback/signal could also fix the issue of displaying tooltips for insensitive widgets.
sorry, the bug i was referring to is bug 50619.
proposals for new tooltips APIs are being discussed here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-January/msg00251.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-March/msg00079.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-April/msg00010.html
gtk+ trunk now shows tooltips for insensitive widgets.
the initial commit of the new tooltips API is here: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gtk+/trunk/?rev=17264 we're keeping this bug open because there're still some details to be fixed/adjusted/discussed.
Added dependency on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426246 which needs fixing in order to eliminate drawing artifacts from the new tooltips code.
As far as I can see this bug can be closed as FIXED.