Make tooltips consistent with Ubuntu's look and feel

[David Siegel]

The Fedora guys did some brilliant work on improving the appearance and behavior of tooltips in Fedora 12:

"GTK+ tooltips have traditionally been yellowish, and have a strong smell of Windows 3.x. In Fedora 12, they will come in a fresh blue, with nice rounded corners and a touch of translucency. We have also improved the positioning algorithm to avoid covering the tool that the tip refers to, as well as appear in a more predictable position." (http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2009/10/26/5-little-things/)

As this great work is landing upstream and should be available in time for Lucid, we should be sure to make Ubuntu's tooltips consistent with Ubuntu's unique look at feel.

More info:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/11/01/just-leave-it-on-the-counter/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1310730

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Yes!
Is there a bug open for spacious panel icons/applets?

[Vish (vish)]

Linking to upstream bug report with patch

[Vish (vish)]

Upstream Bug report for rounded tooltips >
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599617

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.19.4-1ubuntu3

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gtk+2.0 (2.19.4-1ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/091_bugzilla_tooltip_refresh.patch:
    - upstream bugzilla change to have better looking tooltips
      the gtk theme need to set "new-tooltip-style" to use those (lp: #487208)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:28:34 -0800

[Vish (vish)]

Only the gtk support for theming has been added.

The actual theming hasnt landed yet.

[Vish (vish)]

Assigning to Kenneth , as he is working on the theme.

[ubby (kostas-sytske)]

Will the tooltip only be improved for Ubuntu or also for Kubuntu?

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

Kubuntu are free to use the same design but it's up to them, really :)

[Vish (vish)]

I dont think this will be fixed in Human-theme ;)

[Vish (vish)]

Kenneth Wimer, Are the current tooltips the final , can we close this bug as fixed?

[Vish (vish)]

The tooltips are rounded now and the color is kept consistent with the notify-osd color.
Marking bug as fixed.

The positioning algorithm is probably a separate bug.

[Arek Olek (arekolek)]

After updating to Maverick tooltips are yellow again. They used to be black in Lucid. What's up with that? Or is it just me?

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Arek: Can you provide a screenshot. It might be the case that it's simply been dropped in the themeing?

[Arek Olek (arekolek)]

Thanks. I can see it is theme dependent, so probably it was dropped from Human theme (?)
If this is how it is supposed to work now, then I'm fine ;)