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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Tooltips of docking windows
From:       "Yannai A. Gonczarowski" <yannaigo () leyada ! jlm ! k12 ! il>
Date:       1999-03-12 10:02:16
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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.
> >
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Regards,
Yannai.

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                  `--------'         The Hebrew University High School
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