Tooltips for KAction (was Re: GUI consistency - Go Menu)

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Sunday 25 August 2002 20:01, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Sunday 25 August 2002 13:22, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Many actions have a text, an icon and a tooltip, e.g. all toolbar
> > actions have an icon and should also have a tooltip.
>
> But I have seen, that what is passed as "tooltip" in the KGuiItem
> is NOT what is shown as a tooltip in the Toolbar. Instead the Actions
> name is shown.

Indeed.

> Why that? Is it a bug?

I wouldn't call it a bug, but a wrong implementation. If an action has a 
tooltip then IMO the action's tooltip should be shown as tooltip when 
the mouse hovers over the toolbar icon of this action. Only if an 
action doesn't have a tooltip the action's name should be shown as 
tooltip.

Could some of the core developers please comment on this?

> > > And why is it not used for most of the other KActions?
> >
> > Because the other KActions where implemented before KGuiItem
> > existed. If you want to you could clean up all those actions and
> > make use of KGuiItem whenever more than a simple text is needed for
> > an action.
>
> I see, and I will clean up the code with that.

Thanks.

Regards,
Ingo

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