Bug 278765 - Taskbar tooltips appear instantly when you hover on items.
Summary: Taskbar tooltips appear instantly when you hover on items.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-taskbar (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=...
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Reported: 2011-07-29 09:44 UTC by Simonas
Modified: 2012-05-27 21:08 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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get rid of "instant popup" tooltip behavior. keep the normal delay. (2.52 KB, patch)
2011-12-15 07:39 UTC, brunciter
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Description Simonas 2011-07-29 09:44:01 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

Since 4.7, when you hover on taskbar item, the tooltip appears instantly. And thats annoying because if i accidently just flip with my mouse through taskbar the tooltips appear and distract me. This problem is only with taskbar tooltips, other ones are working fine. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
open some window and hover on that task

Actual Results:  
when you hover on that item, the tooltip will appear instantly

Expected Results:  
There should be delay to not distract the user.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-07-29 11:35:30 UTC
According to code changes, this has been done on purpose.
Comment 2 Simonas 2011-07-29 14:02:08 UTC
When you hover on launchers or clock or anything else it appears after some delay, but taskbar items appear instantly. Thats clearly iconsistency. Like when i open kickoff menu and try to hover on e.g. recent documents i accidently hover a bit lower to taskbar item and it obscures the kickoff. Thats not really a feature imo :(
Comment 3 Kevin Ottens 2011-07-30 15:43:20 UTC
As Christoph pointed, this change was done on purpose because the tooltips of the taskbar have a different status than the other ones, you can actually interact with them.

Now the particular interaction issue you raise (tooltip still appearing while kickoff is on) is a different thing, doesn't invalidate the idea of immediate tooltip in the general case though.
Comment 4 Simonas 2011-07-30 21:26:55 UTC
The kickoff menu was just an example. This does really distract the user, whenever you accidently quickly swipe through tasks. If that was intentional, then perhaps you could make a very small delay, i mean about half second or so. So then when you want to access thumbnails they will appear almost instantly and when you swipe with your mouse accidently the thumbnail wont appear and distract the user.
Comment 5 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas 2011-08-11 13:28:16 UTC
hello,

at the plasma-devel mailing has been decided that it is a bug.

I have send a patch.

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102304/
Comment 6 brunciter 2011-12-15 07:39:34 UTC
Created attachment 66767 [details]
get rid of "instant popup" tooltip behavior.  keep the normal delay.
Comment 7 brunciter 2011-12-15 07:53:58 UTC
The patch by Giorgos seems to introduce a delay only if compositing is
disabled.  Having a setting somewhere (maybe "no delay" on/off in Task Manager
settings) would be better.  My patch here just returns it to the old behavior -
regular, non-"instant" popup.
Comment 8 Andrej 2012-03-30 16:05:05 UTC
These instant popups are indeed disturbing, and the very first annoyance I noticed immediately after upgrading my KDE SC. The old behavior was much better - delay before first thumbnail popup appears, and then if you slide mouse across other tasks, subsequent popups replace each other instantly.
Comment 9 Martin Steigerwald 2012-03-31 10:23:20 UTC
I also hit the popups accidentally quite a lot. I did not come notice as to why until Andrej mentioned on debian-kde that the delay is missing.

When I want to interact with a window menu and I hover about the title bar I come into the taskbar cause I have the control panel at the top of the screen. Then I have to move away, to let the popup hide to be able to interact with the menu again.
Comment 10 Simonas 2012-03-31 16:49:23 UTC
Folks, KDE 4.8.1 has fixed that issue, now the taskbar tooltips are no longer instant, just the way i wanted :)