Bug 501312

Summary: Tooltips are displayed on hover, even if tooltips are disabled in Settings
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: flan_suse <windows2linux>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, nate, noahadvs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.4.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description flan_suse 2025-03-10 18:58:59 UTC
SUMMARY
Tooltips are displayed whenever I hover my mouse over items in the Application Launcher (Kickoff), but I have them *disabled* under System Settings > General Behavior


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Disable tooltips under System Settings > General Behavior
2. Open the Application Launcher (Kickoff) and hover your mouse over items

OBSERVED RESULT
Tooltips ("descriptions") are displayed when hovering with the mouse over menu items.

EXPECTED RESULT
No tooltips should display upon mouse hover. Shouldn't matter if a menu item has a long "description" or not.


ADDITIONAL INFO
What seems to be happening is that Kickoff still wants to display a menu item's "description" if it's not short enough to fit in the viewable space.

Short descriptions do not trigger a tooltip to appear. Long descriptions will appear as a tooltip.

If you disable description's ("Name only") in the Kickoff settings, then *all* items with a description will trigger a tooltip, even if the description is "short".


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-03-11 22:14:03 UTC
It was for this reason that we changed the text for Plasma 6.4 to make it clear *which* tooltips it disables. It's not a systemwide "disable all tooltips" feature. That was definitely not clear!
Comment 2 flan_suse 2025-03-11 23:12:33 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> It was for this reason that we changed the text for Plasma 6.4 to make it
> clear *which* tooltips it disables. It's not a systemwide "disable all
> tooltips" feature. That was definitely not clear!

Where would I disable tooltips for Application Launcher (Kickoff)?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-03-11 23:22:34 UTC
For this specific use case, Kickoff settings > Show applications as > Name Only.

If this setting isn't actually suppressing the descriptions on the Favorites page (or anywhere else?) then that's a bug that should be fixed. Can you open a new bug report about that specifically?
Comment 4 flan_suse 2025-03-11 23:38:10 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> For this specific use case, Kickoff settings > Show applications as > Name Only.

New bug ticket:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501380