Bug 69983

Summary:	tooltips will not go away and prevent clicking on launchers
Product:	[Plasma] kicker	Reporter:	missive
Component:	general	Assignee:	John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description missive 2003-12-10 04:28:16 UTC

Version:           1.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1.94)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.6.0-test11

When a tooltip comes up, it often completely covers the button it is providing help for, especially if the kicker is set to "tiny" size.

It would be nice to be able to click right through the tooltip the button underneath it.

Also, if the kicker is set to hide immediately, the tooltips are sometimes left hanging in the air for quite a long time.

Also, there are often multiple tooltips popping up at once obscuring one in front of another.

Comment 1 Marcin Palka 2004-02-20 10:06:37 UTC

The same behavior with 3.2 final on Mandrake. Most of times there are several tooltips appearing at the same time when moving mouse over only _one_ systray icon. They remain visible for too long time (is it somehow configurable?) covering each other. In this case it completely not helpful to have them showing.

Comment 2 missive 2004-03-13 03:23:23 UTC

After upgrading to 3.2.1 the behavior is much better. I only see
one tooltip at a time and they get out of the way of the mouse.
Very nice :o)

Comment 3 missive 2004-07-02 21:50:47 UTC

I find that if kicker has been active (that is, if I have been
using it) then the tooltips work quite well. The problem seems
to be when kicker has been hidden for a while and not used.

In those cases (sometimes, I can hear the drive working, so it
may be that some part of kicker is being swapped back in) the
tooltips are much more erratic, and often troublesome.

Comment 4 Heine Salte 2004-10-11 14:28:11 UTC

Well, kde3.3.0 here, and it still pops up all tooltips in systray upon touching a single icon (even though I've turned tooltips off in control centre). the annoying thing is they stay so long, and I have like 1 or 2 pixels left to try to hit juk or kontact icon to bring up those apps, and sometimes the tips stay there for a looong time. Also, the kopete tooltip is so big, listing all the protocols I'm connected to. There should be a delay before the tooltip appears, so I can just klick that maily E

Comment 5 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-10-20 07:04:00 UTC

the remaining issue involves the systray. we already have such a BR =)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71201 ***