Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?

[Richard Shann <richard rshann plus com>]

On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 12:00 +0000, gtk-app-devel-list-request gnome org
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> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:42:25 +0100 (CET)
> From: Lucas Levrel <llevrel yahoo fr>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Denemo-devel] Tooltips - what am I doing wrong?
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> Le 27 novembre 2015, John Coppens a ?crit :
> > I think those 'tear-offs' are not the same ones as referred to here.
> > The 'main menu bar' of GIMP doesn't have tear-offs anymore. I
> believe
> > the ones you are showing are from right-clicking on the canvas.
>
> Right.
>
> > I also suspect that the complexities arise from detaching menus from
> > the main menu bar, not from the right-click, which is already a
> > pop-up
>
> Thanks for clarifying. This said, I don't see much difference between
> e.g. 
> the sub-menus of a menu and those of the right-click pop-up. Never
> mind.

And, indeed, it is particularly in the sub-sub-sub menus where it is
very handy to tear-off a menu to be used for a few minutes.

I notice that gimp has no tooltips on its menu items - perhaps they were
forced to abandon them when the Gtk developers decided to make them pop
up uncontrollably fast as you move down a menu... I've worked around
this "feature" in Denemo now by allowing people to press the f1 key
while hovering on a menu item to bring up the (otherwise disabled)
tooltip.

Richard

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