From kde-devel Fri Mar 12 10:02:16 1999 From: "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:02:16 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Tooltips of docking windows X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92124685109678 Anyone wants to implement this (I have no idea how)? Richard Moore wrote: > > "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" wrote: > > > > So why not, instead of adding a tooltip, change the title of the docked Kppp > > window to show the connection speed? > > It's simpler, and it will work with this approach. > > And why not make your patch work using QString's sprintf method? That > would let us add a config option to set the text of the tip. > eg. > QString msg(i18n("Connected at %s")) > QString tip() > tip.sprintf(msg, speed) > > You could then make it easy for new users to understand while still > allowing > people to set the tip to a bare connection speed. > > Rich. > > > > > Eirikur Hallgrimsson wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote: > > > >David Faure wrote: > > > >> Docking is not only for sort-of minimizing apps, it can also have more > > > >> special purposes, depending on the application. So I don't think it's > > > >> good to hardcode a behaviour in the parent (here kpanel). > > > > > > > >But still, korn could set the title of each mailbox to be the tooltip. > > > >Regards, > > > >Yannai. > > > > > > This approach won't work for my (unsubmitted, sigh) minor patch to Kppp > > > which adds a tooltip showing the connection speed. I think the reason I > > > haven't submitted it is that I like the effect of just showing the digits > > > of the connection speed, but I've been expecting that other people would > > > want a label, too, lest new users ask "What's this number?" > > > > > > Eirikur > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > Yannai. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Yannai A. Gonczarowski _____..---======~~~~~=======---.._____ > > ______________________ __,-='=====____ ================ _____=====`= > > (._____________________I__) - _-=_/ `--------=+=-------' > > / /__...---===='---+---_' System Administrator > > '------'---.___ - _ = _.-' yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il > > `--------' The Hebrew University High School > > "Si vis pacem, para bellum" http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk > http://www.robocast.com/ richard@robocast.com > http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org -- Regards, Yannai. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yannai A. Gonczarowski _____..---======~~~~~=======---.._____ ______________________ __,-='=====____ ================ _____=====`= (._____________________I__) - _-=_/ `--------=+=-------' / /__...---===='---+---_' System Administrator '------'---.___ - _ = _.-' yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il `--------' The Hebrew University High School "Si vis pacem, para bellum" http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------