A couple of questions about QML Plasma bindings

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:05:27 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2011, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) wrote:
> > * I'd like to show a tooltip when the applet is collapsed into an icon
> > in
> > the panel but, still, there are no QML bindings to
> > Plasma::ToolTipContent
> > and ToolTipManager classes.
> > 
> >   Is there any chances to get it exposed to QML?
> 
> hm, no, unfortunately at the moment there isn't any way..
> i should come up with something
> I *think* tha writing a ToolTipData element (just a qobject) that has the
> usual tooltip data as properties, it could then register its parent if it't
> a qgraphicsitem to the plasma tooltip manager.
> it would remain the unpretty thing of being possible to put two or more
> tooltip datas as child of any given item and this kinda sucks

Or maybe that's very handy, in the case you want to overwrite the "general 
tooltip" for a specific item inside that widget.

> (or the tooltip data could be registered in the qscriptengine and
> created/assigned in an imperative way)

My feeling is that tooltips belong to a specific item / element.

> opinions on it?
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sebas

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