Re: Callback based tooltips (Re: New tooltips API, continued)

[Kristian Rietveld <kris imendio com>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:16:51PM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:08:12PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> >>I once wrote down how tooltips should behave:
> >
> >I mostly like the behaviour you described below.
> >
> >>        - Tooltips are too intrusive. The text should be smaller, and
> 
> not sure if this has been raised already...
> the font size of the tooltips should be exactly as large as the default
> font size (module tooltip markup of course) to avoid reducing usability
> of the tooltips in contrast to normal text (labels).

The text for default/simple tooltips using toolip-markup are drawn using
the default GTK+ font at this point.  FireFox does this too, it seems.


-kris.