This is not suse-specific, but something that's really annoying me, and maybe some others here. I run KDE, but I often use Firefox and Thunderbird. Does anyone know any way to turn off tooltips for these? I've not found anything in the apps themselves or in gnome-control-center. The biggest problem is Thunderbird, which will raise a tooltip if you leave the cursor in the subject/from/etc list. If I then switch desktops (which I do from the keyboard), the tooltip will remain on the screen for some time, even though I'm on a new desktop, which is rather ugly.
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
This is not suse-specific, but something that's really annoying me, and maybe some others here.
I run KDE, but I often use Firefox and Thunderbird. Does anyone know any way to turn off tooltips for these? I've not found anything in the apps themselves or in gnome-control-center.
The biggest problem is Thunderbird, which will raise a tooltip if you leave the cursor in the subject/from/etc list. If I then switch desktops (which I do from the keyboard), the tooltip will remain on the screen for some time, even though I'm on a new desktop, which is rather ugly.
Have you looked in all of the about:config settings? Use a URL of about:config
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
This is not suse-specific, but something that's really annoying me, and maybe some others here.
I run KDE, but I often use Firefox and Thunderbird. Does anyone know any way to turn off tooltips for these? I've not found anything in the apps themselves or in gnome-control-center.
The biggest problem is Thunderbird, which will raise a tooltip if you leave the cursor in the subject/from/etc list. If I then switch desktops (which I do from the keyboard), the tooltip will remain on the screen for some time, even though I'm on a new desktop, which is rather ugly.
Have you looked in all of the about:config settings?
Use a URL of about:config
I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty. I did find in gconf-editor "/apps/panel/global/tooltip_enable", but tooltips are still showing up. (As an aside: good god! What horrid spawn of eldritch evil possessed them to implement windows registry in linux?!?)
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:04, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
This is not suse-specific, but something that's really annoying me, and maybe some others here.
I run KDE, but I often use Firefox and Thunderbird. Does anyone know any way to turn off tooltips for these? I've not found anything in the apps themselves or in gnome-control-center.
The biggest problem is Thunderbird, which will raise a tooltip if you leave the cursor in the subject/from/etc list. If I then switch desktops (which I do from the keyboard), the tooltip will remain on the screen for some time, even though I'm on a new desktop, which is rather ugly.
Have you looked in all of the about:config settings?
Use a URL of about:config
I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty.
And where did you find that it should be called 'tooltip'?
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:04, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote: I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty.
And where did you find that it should be called 'tooltip'?
What else would it be called? If I'm trying to turn off tooltips, shouldn't the option have 'tooltip' somewhere in the name?
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:04, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote: I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty.
And where did you find that it should be called 'tooltip'?
What else would it be called? If I'm trying to turn off tooltips, shouldn't the option have 'tooltip' somewhere in the name?
Have you tried K menu, Control Center, Appearance & Themes, Style, then uncheck Enable tooltips Robert Cunningham Sr. Physics Laboratory Coordinator Kettering University
rcunning@kettering.edu wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote: What else would it be called? If I'm trying to turn off tooltips, shouldn't the option have 'tooltip' somewhere in the name?
Have you tried K menu, Control Center, Appearance & Themes, Style, then uncheck Enable tooltips
Indeed, I have. That doesn't seem to have any control over GTK/Gnome apps.
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:04, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:54, suse@rio.vg wrote:
This is not suse-specific, but something that's really annoying me, and maybe some others here.
I run KDE, but I often use Firefox and Thunderbird. Does anyone know any way to turn off tooltips for these? I've not found anything in the apps themselves or in gnome-control-center.
The biggest problem is Thunderbird, which will raise a tooltip if you leave the cursor in the subject/from/etc list. If I then switch desktops (which I do from the keyboard), the tooltip will remain on the screen for some time, even though I'm on a new desktop, which is rather ugly.
Have you looked in all of the about:config settings?
Use a URL of about:config
I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty.
Try browser.chrome.toolbar_tips in firefox, set it to false and your tooltips should go away
I did find in gconf-editor "/apps/panel/global/tooltip_enable", but tooltips are still showing up. (As an aside: good god! What horrid spawn of eldritch evil possessed them to implement windows registry in linux?!?)
They didn't. It's text based (xml) and distributed, not the centralised BLOB that you find on "the other OS" That said, I'm no fan of it, mostly because gnome developers seem to use it as an excuse for not having to come up with a better GUI (something like: where should we stick this button? I don't know, just stick the feature in gconf!)
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:04, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote: I typed "tooltip" into the filter and it came up empty.
Try browser.chrome.toolbar_tips in firefox, set it to false and your tooltips should go away
Perfect, thanks! (Now why couldn't they have called it tooltips like everyone else does?)
I did find in gconf-editor "/apps/panel/global/tooltip_enable", but tooltips are still showing up. (As an aside: good god! What horrid spawn of eldritch evil possessed them to implement windows registry in linux?!?)
They didn't. It's text based (xml) and distributed, not the centralised BLOB that you find on "the other OS"
Ah, ok... that gconf-editor was giving me flashbacks to regedit!
That said, I'm no fan of it, mostly because gnome developers seem to use it as an excuse for not having to come up with a better GUI (something like: where should we stick this button? I don't know, just stick the feature in gconf!)
More than that... I've read where they've deliberately taken options out of the gui entirely because they thought it would just confuse the user!
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:59, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Try browser.chrome.toolbar_tips in firefox, set it to false and your tooltips should go away
Perfect, thanks! (Now why couldn't they have called it tooltips like everyone else does?)
You must be pretty naive to think that everyone in the computer industry is going to name things the same way.... which is why I asked you "what makes you think it is going to be called 'tooltips'?" A little imagination will do you well when working with computers...
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:59, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Perfect, thanks! (Now why couldn't they have called it tooltips like everyone else does?)
You must be pretty naive to think that everyone in the computer industry is going to name things the same way.... which is why I asked you "what makes you think it is going to be called 'tooltips'?"
A little imagination will do you well when working with computers...
Maybe because gconf calls it tooltips? And everywhere else I've seen them also calls them tooltips? I'm sorry, you're right, using standard names so options can be found is a foolish notion. Even programs that use the same toolkit like gtk/gnome should never use the same name for the same thing. All config files should be like sendmail.cf. I've learned the error of my ways. I should just use my imagination to crawl inside the head of every developer in the world and learn what they decided to name. Thank you.
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