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Bug 242031 - Tables and Trees don't show rollover tooltips for text wider than column
Summary: Tables and Trees don't show rollover tooltips for text wider than column
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: All Linux-GTK
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Bogdan Gheorghe CLA
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Reported: 2008-07-24 17:17 EDT by David Carver CLA
Modified: 2008-07-29 12:11 EDT (History)
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Description David Carver CLA 2008-07-24 17:17:49 EDT 
This may be only a OS specific bug, when hovering over a description in a Templates Preference page that is too long to display, the full description is not displayed.    Under Windows and Vista the full description is displayed in a hover.

This was brought up in the UI Useability Workgroup meeting on July 23, 2008.
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2008-07-28 06:52:19 EDT 
This is a general OS problem. On Linux, there are no rollover tooltips when a table- or tree-item is wider than its column. Changed summary from "[template] Hovering over Description doesn't show extended description".
Comment 2 Steve Northover CLA 2008-07-28 15:03:26 EDT 
WONTFIX.  GTK trees and tables don't have hover help.  This is the correct operating system behavior.
Comment 3 David Carver CLA 2008-07-28 15:12:38 EDT 
Unless, I'm totally wrong on this (which is a very good possiblity), it would seem that this can be enabled in GTK.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkTreeView.html#gtk-tree-view-set-hover-selection

Again, I'm not overly familiar with GTK api, so this might not be available depending on the viewing mode.
Comment 4 Steve Northover CLA 2008-07-28 17:35:13 EDT 
Right you are.  Reopening the bug.
Comment 5 Bogdan Gheorghe CLA 2008-07-29 12:11:02 EDT 
gtk-tree-view-set-hover-selection is not hover help - it is hot tracking of the selection. 

Closing as WONTFIX since GTK trees/tables do not have hover help.