STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Run Kate 2. Hover over the various items in the Status bar, e.g. 1:1, INSERT, UTF-8, Normal and, to a lesser extent, Output, LSP etc. OBSERVED RESULT No tooltips. EXPECTED RESULT Tooltips explaining what those items mean, or what will happen when you click them. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20221209 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 6.0.10-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ProBook 450 G4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VS Code has tooltips for its equivalent status bar items.
That is intentional, we had that in the past, people complaint that would distract too much and I agree, see e.g. https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/460
Hmm, OK, although it'd be nice if this went through a proper usability evaluation.