Re: tooltips

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Sven J. wrote:
> Hi justin and list,
>
> i'm wondering why nautilus doesnt have tooltips for files/folders at
> all, it could help in symbol mode.
>
> wouldn't it be nifty if it shows file-size, rights, owner, group if you
> hover it for perhaps 2 seconds.
>
> i guess there is a bug somewhere ;-)


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147642
Christian Neumair has already some ideas of implementing it overthere.

> Am Sonntag, den 07.08.2005, 17:06 -0400 schrieb Justin:
>
> > I would like to add tooltips to desktop icons, how would I go about 
> > doing this?  and also I would like to add an icon for the removeable 
> > media icons to my desktop with the same functionality ie changing when 
> > mounted, as the one's contained within the Computer icon already on the 
> > desktop.  Could someone please explain how I would go about doing this.
In general for tooltips you have to use: GtkTooltips See here 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkTooltips.html

Jaap