Strange ampersand in Plasma tooltips

Leo Franchi lfranchi at kde.org
Mon Mar 1 19:37:29 CET 2010


On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Kuba Serafinowski <zizzfizzix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 16:48, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Eelko Berkenpies <e.berkenpies at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Monday 01 March 2010 08:32:55 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>> >> Heya,
>> >>
>> >> I'm having a weird issue here, and I wonder if it's just me, or if
>> >> it's maybe a bug in Plasma:
>> >>
>> >> Many of the tooltips of the Plasma::IconWidget buttons we use in
>> >> Amarok (like in the toolbar and in applets) contain weird ampersand
>> >> characters, that is "&". I assume they come from keyboard shortcuts,
>> >> but surely they shouldn't be shown in the tooltip, no?
>> >>
>> >> I've asked about this in the #plasma IRC channel before, but noone had
>> >> an idea. Do you have any? :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Attaching a screenshot of this issue.
>> >
>> > To be honest, I don't see that kind of behavior here using the latest
>> > GIT
>> > version. I cannot specifically check the Last.fm tooltips (don't have
>> > that
>> > compiled in here at work) but all other tooltips seem to work fine.
>> >
>> > Using Fedora 12 / KDE 4.4 / Qt 4.6.2 if that helps you. :)
>>
>> KDE 4.4.0 and Qt 4.6.1 here. Maybe it's a Qt bug then?
>
> Might be, upgraded Qt to 4.6.2 and they don't show anymore, try that.

I'm using qt 4.6 from the git branch (pulled a few days ago) and still
have the issue, so I don't think it's fixed in later versions of Qt.

leo


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