[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Tool-tips

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le mercredi 10 juillet 2013 11:16:10 Thomas Pfeiffer a écrit :
> 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?

Maybe I could put together a short code snippet to create one? I do not expect 
this to be too much code.

Aurélien