Mixxx

Bug #1434801
Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1434801

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Max Linke (max-linke) wrote on 2015-03-28: Re: [Bug 1434801] [NEW] Displaying tooltips has negative impact on waveform performance

Having a delay for the tool-tip would be really great. I get annoyed
everytime with the huge tooltips when I test mixxx.

Just a delay of .2s or similar would already help.

On 03/21/2015 11:44 AM, jus wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> 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 pops up.
> Symptoms are similar to lp:685795 and lp:872003
>
> 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.
>
> ** Affects: mixxx
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: performance waveform
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> - 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.
> + 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 pops 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.
>
> ** Tags added: waveform
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> 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 pops up.
> - Symptoms are similar to lp:685795
> + Symptoms are similar to lp:685795 and lp:872003
>
> 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.
>

Having a delay for the tool-tip would be really great. I get annoyed 
everytime with the huge tooltips when I test mixxx.

Just a delay of .2s or similar would already help.

On 03/21/2015 11:44 AM, jus wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> 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 pops up.
> Symptoms are similar to lp:685795 and lp:872003
>
> 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.
>
> ** Affects: mixxx
>       Importance: Undecided
>           Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: performance waveform
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> - 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.
> + 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 pops 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.
>
> ** Tags added: waveform
>
> ** Description changed:
>
>    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 pops up.
> - Symptoms are similar to lp:685795
> + Symptoms are similar to lp:685795 and lp:872003
>
>    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.
>