Menu Tooltips.

towsonu2003 ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed May 3 13:35:13 UTC 2006


Vincent Trouilliez Wrote: 
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 04:27 +0100, towsonu2003 wrote:

> > I still have tooltips everywhere... 

> > for example, I hover around "workspaces" (right bottom

> > corner) and I get a handful of "switch between workspaces",
> "workspace

> > 1", "workspace 2" etc. I guess they've gone really overboard. 

> > 

> > is there another way to disable them?

> > PS. the way I used was: uncheck /apps/panel/global/tooltips_enabled
> in

> > gconf...

> 

> 

> I filed a bug about this 3 months ago in Malone, apparently it's a
> known

> bug that upstream (Gnome) is aware about.

> 

> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/31102

> 

> But even when (if) this bug gets fixed, there will still be tooltips

> popping up all the time in applications.

> So what is needed is better control over tooltips system-wide, and
> make

> these controls at easy reach, say for example in the Window
> Preferences

> dialog, it would be at home there.

> 

> But I am day dreaming...

> 

> --

> Vince

> 

3 months... ouch... I thought our developers tried to fix upstream bugs
as well? 



added my comment to the bug report. thanks for the link.


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towsonu2003




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