Review Request: Add the ability for applets to change autohide timeout value

[Matthew Dawson]

On Friday 09 January 2009 18:10:25 Chani wrote:
> On January 9, 2009 14:13:28 Matthew Dawson wrote:
> > > On 2008-12-30 17:07:07, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > > > what is the use case?
> >
> > Some applets may update faster then 3 seconds (such as systemloadviewer).
> > This would allow them to set an update interval so they may still use the
> > auto-hide feature.
>
> huh? what does updated data have to do with autohide?
>
> you can update the tooltip data without hiding it - look at the clock
> tooltip when the clock is showing seconds.

Currently if you update the tooltip's content faster then three seconds, the 
tooltip will never autohide.  This occurs because the timer counting the 
three seconds resets when data is updated.  The problem is that the tooltip 
doesn't go away, not that it never appears.

Matthew

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