Bug 496049

Summary: with big corsor tooltips are covered by cursor
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: pier andre <pier_andreit>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.11   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: tooltip covered by big cursor

Description pier andre 2024-11-10 13:06:49 UTC
Created attachment 175708 [details]
tooltip covered by big cursor

SUMMARY
using big corsor tooltips of many applications (like libreoffice for example) are covered by cursor

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. on systemsettings>appearence>cursor>select a cursor with size 64
2. for example in libreoffice hoover the cursor on an icon of the toolbar
3. the tooltip that appear is partially covered by the cursor

OBSERVED RESULT
the tooltip that appear is partially covered by the cursor

EXPECTED RESULT
the tooltip should appear completely readable and not covered by tha cursor

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.25-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: offscreen
Processors: 12 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1335U
Memory: 23.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Graphics


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
may be better if the tooltips would appear above or beside the cursor
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-11-13 19:21:21 UTC
Yep, that's what happens when you have a huge cursor! Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it in KDE code; this would need to be done in each app or toolkit that shows tooltips. It would need to read the current cursor size and adjust the tooltip position accordingly.