Bug 357703

Summary:	Wording of "Workspace Behavior, Show Informational Tips" ambiguous
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Raman Gupta <rocketraman>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	task	CC:	bfeber, bshah, kde, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	bshah: Usability?
Version First Reported In:	5.7.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=df78989bb287ba8c319658a703960ac3c47d8810	Version Fixed/Implemented In:	5.12.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Raman Gupta 2016-01-08 17:11:13 UTC

When hovering over the digital clock it is supposed to show a popup dialog with the time in the additional time zones selected. It does nothing.

No errors are shown in .xsession-errors during the hover.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. However over the digital clock.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Show popup

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2016-01-08 17:20:17 UTC

Thanks for the report

Do you get any popups anywhere in Plasma?

Comment 2 Raman Gupta 2016-01-08 17:38:05 UTC

Actually come to think of it, no I don't think so. For example, my taskbar has "hover tooltips" set, and those are not showing either.

However, all the click-triggered popups work just fine e.g. the k-menu, clicking on the clock shows the calendar, etc.

Comment 3 Martin Klapetek 2016-01-08 17:42:24 UTC

Ok; do you use multi-screen setup?

Comment 4 Raman Gupta 2016-01-08 17:47:25 UTC

(In reply to Martin Klapetek from comment #3)
> Ok; do you use multi-screen setup?

Yes. Three monitors.

Comment 5 Martin Klapetek 2016-01-08 18:12:19 UTC

Ok, can you also please check

System Settings -> Workspace/Desktop Behaviour -> Workspace/Workspace Behaviour -> Show Informational Tips

..if that is enabled?

Comment 6 Raman Gupta 2016-01-08 18:20:51 UTC

(In reply to Martin Klapetek from comment #5)
> System Settings -> Workspace/Desktop Behaviour -> Workspace/Workspace
> Behaviour -> Show Informational Tips

Ah, well that fixed it.

I remember turning that off because the wording sounded like it was tutorial-type stuff like when one is first starting to learn KDE ("tips"). I didn't notice any immediate difference from turning it off so I left it off and subsequently forgot about it.

I guess "informational tips" is supposed to be a nicer way to say "tooltips" but "tips" as a separate word means something other than what tooltip means.

Some additional explanation in that dialog about what "informational tips" are would be useful.

Comment 7 Raman Gupta 2016-01-08 18:24:38 UTC

And: why would *anyone* want to turn that off anyway?? i.e. why is that even an option?

Comment 8 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-01-08 18:40:44 UTC

I guess because Plasma Tooltips can be annoying. ok, seriously, I think we should kill that KCM, there's just this one option in it anyway...