Bug 221885 - The "Add Widgets" information tooltip (on mouseover) is too big and it blocks the explorer and the desktop contents
Summary: The "Add Widgets" information tooltip (on mouseover) is too big and it blocks...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: widget explorer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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: 219730 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-01-09 09:53 UTC by SlashDevDsp
Modified: 2010-05-18 11:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description SlashDevDsp 2010-01-09 09:53:21 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          g++ 4.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

running 'add widgets' shows a list of widgets, but the mouse-over information dialog is very big and on a small screen makes it difficult to add widget directly above the add widget bar.

See screenshot: unable to add widget to desktop because the mouseover information dialog is in the way. In the screenshot you can see I am trying to add the 'blackboard' widget, but unable to due to the information dialog.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1584/snapshot1n.jpg
Comment 1 Kolia 2010-01-09 13:44:46 UTC
Hi Slash,

You can workaround it this way: just start to drag the plasmoid anywhere on the desktop outside of the mouse-over information: the information will disappear and you can drop the plasmoid at its place.

Cheers.
Comment 2 Kolia 2010-01-09 13:48:52 UTC
What is weird is that the mouse over sometimes disappear when you comes over it while dragging a plasmoid, thus no problem. And sometimes you have to move outside the mouse-over info to make it disappear (the work-around i said).
Comment 3 SlashDevDsp 2010-01-09 14:23:51 UTC
but unfortunatly, very inconvenient on the eepc 7". As you can see from the screenshot there is a lot of redundant space in the information mouseover. that is what i would like to reduce, so the whole information mouseover tooltip is smaller. At the moment the content it shows (author, email url,license) and the size of the tooltip do not fit verywell.
Comment 4 SlashDevDsp 2010-01-12 04:37:04 UTC
thanks for the newly sized (smaller) information popup, but at the moment it seems to be jerkier, leaving traces of edges, and not as smooth as compared to the default taskbar widget mouseover.
Comment 5 Dario Andres 2010-01-19 20:12:01 UTC
*** Bug 219730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Beat Wolf 2010-05-18 11:25:10 UTC
Works for me, the popup disapears as soon as drag and drop starts.