Comment 0 for bug 1434801

Currently , the tooltip instantly pop up once you hover over an element, even if you just travel with the mouse between two distant elements. At least on OSX there is always a performance hit (waveform stutter), if the tooltip of the next element pop-up.
Symptoms are similar to lp:685795

You can work around that by disabling tooltips, but that won`t help many users (if they even find the option).

I thought about delaying the tooltip display on mouse-over. Mouse rest over an element more than X ms = tooltip displays. Common are delays of about 500ms, but that is too long imo.