Tool tips ideas

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Apr 6 00:17:18 CEST 2009


On Sunday 05 April 2009, Emdek wrote:
> On Sunday 05-04-2009 22:37:58 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >> >> I'm using also middle click
> >> >> on preview to close or left to raise it or iconify.
> >> >
> >> > so hiding tips needs to take hover of tip itself into account (easy to
> >> > do :)
> >> > and we need some clicked(ToolTipContent) signals
> >>
> >> Yes, this would be useful, especially if there would be QPoint with
> >> location of click event on screen.
> >
> > do we need a point, or just what was actually activiated? (e.g. which
> > link or
> > which action)
>
> Maybe there could be passed with event object as parameter (so we could get
> information about position, used mouse buttons etc.)?

so that everyone can interpret "what to do" differently? i dunno .. sounds a 
bit over-engineered and a recipe for inconsistency.

> Also there could be
> passed enumerator member (for example Preview, Icon, Text) to tell which
> widget was activated.

yes, that makes complete sense. we'd probably also need to pass a url as well 
in the case of some text being clicked.

> >> Yes, of course I'm interested (especially because I want to use it ;-))
> >> but
> >> there is again problem with lack of compiled trunk on my machine...
> >
> > you should be able to just get kdelibs and just build kdelibs/plasma?
>
> I could at least try to prepare needed environment during next days (I
> could try to prepare full set when I'll format my hard drive at end of
> April, this will be it's first full format after four years of use ;-)).

:)


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