1169265 - Use Windows 10 style for tooltips

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect, P4)

Description

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Attachment: Tooltips in Edge

Windows 10 (and Edge in particular) uses a slightly different style for tooltips (see attachment). We should use the same styling, including the larger padding and wider border.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Jim, should / can this be fixed at widget level?

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

As far as I can tell we fall through to default themed background rendering. Maybe the theme lib hasn't been updated yet? We should wait for the rtm.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/windows/nsNativeThemeWin.cpp#1880

Comment 3

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Hm, the tool tips in classic apps (e.g. Explorer) are different than in Edge and other modern apps.

We'd like to use the modern kind, so I'm not sure whether the toolkit we are currently using will give us those.

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] please use needinfo from comment #3)
> Hm, the tool tips in classic apps (e.g. Explorer) are different than in Edge
> and other modern apps.

I think I've seen at least three different styles. At this point I don't even know what can be considered "Windows 10 style" here...

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

In the RTM build, it looks like Edge is using different tooltip styles for chrome and content. Quite a mess.