Re: [Usability] Tooltip delays aren't settable

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:13 -0400
Caleb Marcus <caleb marcus gmail com> wrote:

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> It seems that the default tooltip delay in GNOME is 0, meaning that
> tooltips show up as soon as a button or menu item is highlighted. I
> find this really annoying, and would like to know how to change this.
> Is it in gconf? The default should really be changed to something like
> 500-750 ms.


I don't think this is true. Most of my tooltips only appear after a
half a second or so delay. I presume you might be referring to the
Main Menu bar, which was a known bug and should be fixed in the next
release (see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336844).

Regards,

Thomas