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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-20145

Improvements for the tooltips

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P4: Low
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    • Qt Creator 4.5.2
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    • OS: Slackware Linux 64bit

    Description

      My main problem is that I frequently see unwanted tooltips everywhere and these can be quite big and 'flashy'.

      For this reason, I turned off tooltips in the text editor, but I still get them in the UI. I would like to keep the tooltips, but maybe some of these suggestions would make them a more comfortable experience: 

      • add a bigger delay before showing a tooltip.
      • optionally show tooltips in the UI only with Shift+hover, as in the text editor.
      • make the tooltips more subdued, eg. without a white border in dark theme.
      • remove unhelpful tooltips such as 'Breakpoint' when on top of a breakpoint. It's currently impossible to disable one without the tooltip flashing.
        The tooltip with the filepath on the search results where it already shows the full filepath is also not useful.
      • start the tooltips for filepaths tend to be huge. They could start with "..." from the project root.
      • add an option to entirely disable tooltips everywhere.

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