Clippy tooltips are too long

[Eduardo Rivas]

Let me break this bug in two parts:

1. The tooltip shown upon hovering Clippy is too long. I suggest you make it as long as a regular 'Docky right-click menu'. For example, I copied the contents of an HTML file and the tooltip is 1032px wide on a 1280px screen.
2. On the Clippy menu, you can view the complete clipboard entry, and some of them just create insanely big tooltips.

Attached a mockup that explains everything better.

On a side note, this seems to be a general issue with strings that are not generated by Docky, for example, clipboard entries or long window/launcher titles. You should consider using a max-width approach, or perhaps implementing something more fancy like scrolling when appropriate.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

We do limit the width of the hovers. We set it to 80% of screen width, otherwise it would actually crash because the hover window would be (MUCH) larger than the screen and X does not like that. Anyway, the 80% was set by our designer so that is a WontFix.

As for the tooltips in the popup, perhaps we could set a limit on those too. I am not sure what to use for a max size there. Quite frankly I like the idea of showing a lot of text. I'll run that one past the bunny designer too.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

hmm definitely having this massive multi-line deal is bad. But I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with the bottom example. It's not like you're doing anything with that space.

[Eduardo Rivas (jerivasmelgar)]

You're are right, the space is not being used. It ends up being a matter of personal taste. I find it disturbing and disruptive to see such a long tooltip, considering the system will not normally allow such lengths. But it's just a minor annoyance, and other people don't find an issue in it, so it's your call.

[Barry van Oudtshoorn (barryvan)]

On large or extended displays, 80% is still too wide. I have a dual-display setup, and the 80% seems to be calculated by the total width of both screens combined. This means that when I have a large clipboard entry, the left-hand edge of the tooltip is off-screen, and the right-hand edge extends over half-way onto the other screen.

I'd recommend setting it to 80% or some absolute pixel value (400px, perhaps?), whichever is smaller, and hard-wrapping the contents as necessary.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

PsyberS, can you look into the multi-monitor and multi-line thing? It should probably be restricted a single line on a single monitor.