Tool tips ideas

Emdek emdeck at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 18:50:02 CEST 2009


Hello

I've idea regarding tool tips in Plasma.
Currently we have some methods for them to set, like main and sub texts, image and windows to preview.
It is enough for 90% of use cases, but there is sometimes need for something more than these properties.
So I'm asking for possibility to add possibility to set own widget instead of current layout with labels.
Of course if it is possible and doesn't create too much problems (for example when morphing contents of two tool tips when showing next when second was shown already).
Now there are at least two applets that currently uses own tool tip implementations because they want to add some functionality to them (for example add more than one preview - recently added to SVN - and some actions).
The drawback is that they must be managed by applets and there is no move and "morphing" animation (by the way, there could be option to disable it, not everybody likes it ;-)).

I've one more idea, for tool tips in systray, but I don't think that it is really currently possible to do.
For example I've in systray three applications, Opera, Pidgin and Amarok.
Each of them has own tool tip. This is very inconsistent.
I don't know if it is possible but maybe applications could register only text and image, maybe other resources and then systray would display them in way that makes them all consistent like other Plasma tool tips.

Best regards
Michał




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