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Bug 79171 - Tooltips cover menu text, panel menus difficult to use
Tooltips cover menu text, panel menus difficult to use
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75961
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 79173 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-04-19 00:59 UTC by Miles Lane
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Miles Lane 2002-04-19 00:59:18 UTC 
Problem:

I find that the tooltips significantly reduce the usability of
the panel menus.  I want to be able to disable tooltips for menus.
Comment 1 Jeff Waugh 2002-04-28 10:17:25 UTC 
The above bug report does not adequately describe (but provides a
positively crackrock solution to) a serious problem. :-) So i've
changed the summary text.

So, the panel menu tooltips obscure the menu text, and should probably
be displayed outside the menu area. Whether this is a GTK+ or panel
issue, I don't know.
Comment 2 Jeff Waugh 2002-04-28 10:39:23 UTC 
*** Bug 79173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 martin H. 2002-05-06 17:43:20 UTC 
But on the other hand, I think we should solve this. It is really a 
usablility handicap. I think this is important. And yes I think the 
right solution here is to first make sure that the tooltips don't 
obscure anything useful. If that's not enough somebody can still 
request an option to turn them off.
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2002-05-09 05:34:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75961 ***