Bug 160429

Summary:	Icon/taskbar tooltips are at wrong place when the panel is not at bottom
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Grósz Dániel <groszdanielpub>
Component:	panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mefoster
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Grósz Dániel 2008-04-05 21:10:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

The tooltips for plasmoids on the panel are always above the plasmoid and their left side is at the left side of the plasmoid. So some of the tooltip is often out of the screen if the plasmoid is not at the bottom of the screen (if it is at the top or the right of the screen, or if it is at the left and the plasmoid is close to the top of the screen). The tooltip should always be on the desktop side of the panel.

Comment 1 Jonathan Thomas 2008-04-05 23:13:34 UTC

Tooltips don't even show up at all when the panel is at the top of the screen here. (Kubuntu)

Comment 2 Grósz Dániel 2008-04-05 23:32:31 UTC

Usually not as well at me (I think they are completely out of the screen). Sometimes a bit of their lower part appeared.

Comment 3 hutch 2008-07-03 02:21:51 UTC

I find it astonishing that this bug is labeled unconfirmed, since one can confirm it (on fedora 9, kde4.0x) by simply moving the panel to a non-bottom position and hovering the mouse over a window. The tips are always above and to the left of the start of the item. Hence tips don't show at all in top position and show only at max about half of themselves in left position. 

This is just the start of the non-functionality of the new panel. Items don't reorient themselves to account for the panel's orientation the way they used to. The new panel is like a ten year regression in basic functionality compared with kde 3.5. Gag!

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-07-03 06:41:42 UTC

> I find it astonishing that this bug is labeled unconfirmed

we honestly don't spend a lot of time moving bugs from unconfirmed to new. not enough triage manpower available; usually things go from unconfirmed->fixed which is, i assume you'll agree, slightly more useful than unconfirmed->new.

> Gag!

you know, that's exactly how i felt reading your comment here. these kinds of empty, useless comments full of stop-energy are not welcome in the plasma community. please take them elsewhere.

in any case, i don't know if you've tried 4.1 but things are a lot better in 4.1.

Comment 5 Alex Merry 2008-07-05 12:21:47 UTC

4.1 currently has tooltips disabled on the taskbar.  So this is on hold until they return...

Comment 6 Thomas Georgiou 2008-07-05 18:22:43 UTC

No more tooltips