Bug 171403

Summary:	Large mouse pointer obscures the beginning of tooltip text
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	peter_s_d
Component:	QStyle	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	caionnew, jtamate, nate, uhhadd
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-101303
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description peter_s_d 2008-09-21 15:39:00 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

This is an old bug that is becoming more important as mouse pointers grow in response to high resolution screens (and failing eyesight).  

Tooltip placement does not respect the size of the mouse pointer (and possibly the size of the desktop font).  When a large pointer is configured or worse a huge pointer like the very cute "tuxcursor" 
<http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Tux+Cursor!?content=5359> 
then the pointer obscures the first word of the tooltip, making it less of a tip and more of a cryptic puzzle.  

Different parts of the desktop are affected differently.  

A good example of bad placement is with pointer over the top left corner of a Konsole window, almost the entire tooltip is hidden.  Most if not all applications mis-behave.  

It also affects Gnome.  
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422247> 
<https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43640>
So it might be an X problem rather than a KDE problem.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2009-12-31 02:11:02 UTC

*** Bug 204627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Janet Blackquill 2022-02-25 20:25:53 UTC

This is an upstream Qt bug; see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-101303.