Re: Future of GtkTooltips

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:23 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Problems - in short - with the current tooltip system:
> 
> - Not flexible enough (only plain text can be set)
> - Unable to set popup location
> - Exposes too many internals (GtkTooltipsData, tip_text, tip_private)
>   without getters/setters
>
> Proposed resultions:
> 
> Flexibility:
> - Use either GtkTextBuffer for powerful tooltips, might be overhead
> - Or use at least PangoMarkup or PangoLayout
> 
> Location:
> - Model an optional function similar to GtkMenuPositionFunc

Have you read the thread from:
 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-October/msg00099.html

? I'm not sure we came up with a decent design there, but there
are several concrete proposals.

Regards,
						Owen