From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:59:46 +0100 Message-ID: <2c0c227549613e2b3c457529618f6cf8@swipnet.se> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> <135420c2f94e0c4c6d3c7ffaee6faf00@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108411908 13324 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 20:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 21:11:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mZ4-0006Wu-Ci for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mmY-0000Eu-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mm8-0000Ah-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mm2-00008C-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0mm1-0008U9-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.73] (helo=mxfep02.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0mO6-0006Mm-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:00:06 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050214200005.QIZJ17521.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:00:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Ralf Angeli X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33418 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33418 > > Ideally there shouldn't be a need to customize the appearance of > tooltips. It would be desirable if Emacs "simply" used tooltips > provided by the toolkit it was configured for (in case the toolkit > supports tooltips). This would, for example, also eliminate the need > to re-customize their appearance in case one changes the theme of a > themeable toolkit. > > But I guess there are more pressing things to do for the next > release. Actually this has been talked about before, as part of Emacs and GTK/Gnome integration. I did some modifiactions to have Emacs use GTK tooltips when built for GTK, I guess I have that patch lying around somewhere. I'll try to get it in after this release. Jan D.