[Bug 171403] New: large mouse pointer hides tooltip

[peter_s_d at fastmail.com.au]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171403

           Summary: large mouse pointer hides tooltip
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Mandriva RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: peter_s_d at fastmail.com.au


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

This is an old bug that is becoming more important as mouse pointers grow in
response to high resolution screens (and failing eyesight).  

Tooltip placement does not respect the size of the mouse pointer (and possibly
the size of the desktop font).  When a large pointer is configured or worse a
huge pointer like the very cute "tuxcursor" 
<http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Tux+Cursor!?content=5359> 
then the pointer obscures the first word of the tooltip, making it less of a
tip and more of a cryptic puzzle.  

Different parts of the desktop are affected differently.  

A good example of bad placement is with pointer over the top left corner of a
Konsole window, almost the entire tooltip is hidden.  Most if not all
applications mis-behave.  

It also affects Gnome.  
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422247> 
<https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43640>
So it might be an X problem rather than a KDE problem.


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