From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix some tooltip related problems Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:39:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83tvvt3vz1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5A533FA4.4030507@gmx.at> <9384bae5-cbb9-4b4d-ac5c-1d01f01c8117@default> <5A53B633.5020706@gmx.at> <41d40db5-15d8-4b2c-a058-fb6dabc8bfd3@default> <5A548E7E.2040601@gmx.at> <5A55E8ED.1010602@gmx.at> <475d480b-3885-4779-ae46-09cf7fbbcee7@default> <20180110191755.GA79229@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <329fad14-bed5-409a-828c-facec2e4be35@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515641882 13246 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 03:38:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 04:37:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTgi-00032v-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:37:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTii-00043z-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35871) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTi7-00043r-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTi3-0002Wk-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTi3-0002Wd-Je; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:39:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2706 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTi3-00081C-7E; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:39:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <329fad14-bed5-409a-828c-facec2e4be35@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:02:42 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221823 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:02:42 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: martin rudalics , emacs-devel > > Given that limitation, I repeat the question: Can't we > use a ("normal") Emacs frame, where things such as faces > do work, to implement tooltips? We do have that capability on almost all platforms, but the default on some of them is to use the system tooltips, and on others there's no other way.