Hey all,
  I spent the last few days trying to do this, including fix a bug in kdelibs, 
so I thought I'd share my results.  I have added comments for this to 
kdelibs.

  Menu items are KActions as you all know.  KActions can have tooltips set:
 (new KAction(.....))->setToolTip(i18n("hello"));

  If you set tooltips for your actions, you can then get those tooltips to 
show in the statusbar by doing like so, in your KMainWindow class.

  actionCollection()->setHighlightingEnabled(true);
  connect(actionCollection(), SIGNAL( actionStatusText( const QString & ) ),
                 statusBar(), SLOT( message( const QString & ) ) );
  connect(actionCollection(), SIGNAL( clearStatusText() ),
                 statusBar(), SLOT( clear() ) );

JohnFlux
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