Closed Bug 56920 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

RFE: pref for "no tooltips"

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla0.9

People

(Reporter: sspitzer, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

References

Details

(Keywords: embed) 

could we have a pref (and the UI in the pref panels) so that I could disable all
tooltips?

I'm sure there are people (like me) who just aren't tooltip people.

"people, who need toolips, are the luckiest people in the world"
seconding this, God I hate tooltips.

-->xpt widgets
Assignee: asa → trudelle
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets
QA Contact: doronr → jrgm
XP apps should do the pref UI, backend pref is probably xpwidgets.

->future
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
paul said that he might know of the css magic to add to your user.css file to
turn tooltips off.

paul?
attinasi has done this css magic for underline pref,
adding him to CC.


#aTooltip {visibility:collapse} works for me (in userChrome.css).
'collapse' only really applies to table cells. If we were to use this, we should
use 'hidden' not 'collapse'.
Er, I thought it was a synonym if applied to other than table elements. But, 
'hidden', I suppose is better.
It is a synonym when applied to other elements, but the value 'hidden' is
recommended. There is the possibility that in CSSn, 'collapse' will apply
to some other display type, for example.
Yes, if there is a pref, it is easy to put in the custom style rule. Currently,
the pref style sheet is built up in the PresShell (chode is only on the trunk
right now though).
taking this over. how about "browser.chrome.toolbar_tips" since that is what we
used in 4.x?
Keywords: embed
Priority: P3 → P2
Hardware: PC → All
Target Milestone: Future → mozilla0.9
really taking
Assignee: trudelle → pinkerton
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
*** Bug 59660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I prefer the pref to the style rule as not everyone is forced to use the generic
tooltip stuff, and it is common in many products to have a UI toggle for tooltips. 
pink, yes please use the 4.x pref.

that way, if a user migrates (or has migrated) a 4.x profile to 6.0, once we fix
this it will just start working.  no additional migration code will need to be
written.

thanks for taking this, pink.
fixed. r=danm/a=hyatt.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Um is there a rationale for this other than "a couple of developers
don't like tooltips" ?
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