Long tooltip

[Reza Shah]

Hi Marco,

Thanks for the input.
Seems the UI change is better.
In this case the changes can only go to 4.11 at best, is this correct?

Regards,
Reza


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 18 February 2013, Reza Shah wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to fix https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314667
> > Which need longer tooltip interval for certain content.
> > In the old c++ code, the tooltip using autohide(false).
> >
> > So this are possible solution i can think of:
> > - Add autohide to qml tooltip(change kde-runtime?)
> > - Use plasma dialog and mimic the appearance of tooltip.
> > - Use different UI flow to display the tooltip content.
> >
> > Are there any solution which one can go to 4.10.x?
>
> could the interval be calculated in function of text length?
> (btw, in most cases, a long text in a tooltip pretty much signals a poor ui
> choice)
>
> in this case the tooltip matches how they are on the web such as xkcd
> having a
> tooltip as a description, but besides keeping that, i would put the full
> description also as a text under the comic in the full view on a separate
> window, just under the image
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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