Re: tooltips and scroll events

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org> wrote:

>> there are complicated patches for this, and there's a simple patch:
>> treat a scroll event equivalently to a button/key press/release. does
>> anyone know of a good reason not to do this?
>
> I don't, and I think we should apply the patch you are proposing.  Currently scroll events are handled similar to motion/enter notify events, which means that when scrolling (for example) a tree view with scroll events, a tooltip continues to be visible.  I agree with you that this behavior does not seem to make much sense.
>
> Any objections to this change?

Sounds right to me; of course, I haven't tried it...