[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tool-tips

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 09.07.2013 18:05, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> On Monday 08 July 2013 11:55:27 Heiko Tietze wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2013, 15:10:57 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
>>>> * Use user defined default timeouts for initialization, reshow, and
>>>> removal. Don't disable auto hide feature.
>>>
>>> Developers cannot alter any of those so it may not be worth keeping it.
>>
>> Removed.
>>
>>> QWhatsThis is not really info-tip though, because its primary use case is
>>> to support the "what's this?" mode. The ability to show a QWhatsThis
>>> window independently from this mode is a by-product. I think we should not
>>> promote info-tips and we should not mention QWhatsThis as implementing
>>> them info-tip for now, instead we should get a proper widget to show them,
>>> this widget would look either like a '?' button or a link-like label and
>>> would show the tip when triggered.
>>
>> The question mark button is mentioned with "* Consider to add small info
>> buttons for use tips with a touch screen."
>
> Yes, I understood this. I was saying kdelibs could provide a standard API for
> this button, so that not every developer reimplements it... slightly
> differently.

Yes, it should. The question is: Should we hide the guideline for info 
buttons until the API is in place?

>> But it is another level of
>> information because the normal tooltip pops up without user action and the
>> QWhatsThis needs a little bit more action. Remember the first rule for
>> computer novices: Don't click this!
>
> Not sure I understand what you mean with "don't click this".

If you don't get it, others won't either ;)
I'd suggest rewording it to
"Especially novice users are reluctant to click things if they are 
unsure what they do, so hovering feels more "safe".