Re: UI issue: inactive menu entries and icons

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I find it disturbing that inactive menu entries and toolbar icons
> won't display their tooltip.  "What is this about?" is an interesting
> question also when an item is inactive.  I actually find this
> _particularly_ interesting since I would like to figure out what would
> make such entries active.  Not getting the tooltip for them makes this
> more difficult.

I agree, but it is very hard (impossible?) to do in some toolkits.  For 
example, inactive usually means that no events whatsoever are generated for 
those icons/buttons.  Things like Enter and Leave events that are used to 
determine what tooltip to show.

Tooltips are shown for inactive icons with the native toolbar, but not 
inactive menu entries. It is complicated for Lesstif/Motif and Gtk+ and I 
guess that is why tool tips for inactive tool bar icons are not shown (well, 
in the Gtk-case, I know that is so).  So I suggest leaving this as is until 
after the release.

        Jan D.