Re: Orca Another gaim problem

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Tooltips do exist on GNOME, but are unfortunately a beast with their own 
issues:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368626

:-(  Hopefully, as GNOME 2.18 becomes more widely available, we can 
eliminate the workaround described in the bug.

Will

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Does Linux have something similar to tool tips in Windblows? Do they pop
> up while hovering the mouse over them? If so you could make an auto
> labeling feature for labeling icons that had tool tips by having some
> sort of logic find the tool tip and labeling the icon with that tip. All
> major screen readers in Windows have this feature but is it at all
> doable in Linux?
> /Krister
>
>
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>   
> > Hi Lorenzo.
> >
> >     
> > > I have notice that most system bar icons other than the clock don't seem
> > > to have labels.  Is there currently no way for a running program to
> > > label its icon with a text label or should we file bugs against gaim and
> > > other programs that don't include text labels with their system icons?
> > >       
> > To be honest, I don't know so I've CCed the Orca list.  Could we add a
> > feature within Orca so that users could label these items?  Is this a
> > problem specific to the application?  Is it a problem specific to the
> > notification area?
> >
> > --Joanie
> >
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