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Bug 65490 - Want to see tooltips also for disabled buttons
Want to see tooltips also for disabled buttons
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
: Medium feature
Assigned To: Unknown User
Unknown User
Depends on: 50619 408327 426246
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-27 13:10 UTC by Hakon
Modified: 2008-03-31 08:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Hakon 2001-11-27 13:10:46 UTC
Why don't tooltips show for disabled button as well? I think they should. 
Could this be a settig in Control Center?
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2001-12-27 19:16:23 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Hakon 2001-12-27 21:29:46 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2003-01-02 23:35:39 UTC
Move bugs which are tracking planned 2.4 features to the proper target
milestones.
Comment 4 Matthew Tuck 2003-01-21 16:29:08 UTC
Tooltips would be really useful to find out _why_ something is disabled.
Comment 5 Samuli Kärkkäinen 2005-01-20 23:26:29 UTC
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?
Comment 6 Tristan Van Berkom 2005-07-29 08:35:30 UTC
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.
Comment 7 Tim Janik 2005-11-16 13:32:17 UTC
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.
Comment 8 Tim Janik 2005-11-16 13:34:10 UTC
sorry, the bug i was referring to is bug 50619.
Comment 10 Kristian Rietveld 2007-02-06 10:45:48 UTC
gtk+ trunk now shows tooltips for insensitive widgets.
Comment 11 Tim Janik 2007-02-09 15:22:02 UTC
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.
Comment 12 Kristian Rietveld 2007-04-04 14:41:34 UTC
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.
Comment 13 Sven Neumann 2008-03-28 09:33:00 UTC
As far as I can see this bug can be closed as FIXED.