tooltips in contact list are redundant and too big

Bug #530869 reported by Matej Svetlík
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Expired
Medium
empathy (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

Tooltips displayed when holding mouse over contact in contact list are too big and doesn't contain any useful information. They add unnecessary clutter to the interface. Most of the info from tooltip can be already seen in contact list and other isn't really useful.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 2 18:32:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.29.91-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1967): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-power-manager:1970): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
 (bluetooth-applet:1978): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Tags: amd64 lucid
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Matej Svetlík (matej-svetlik) wrote :
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Are there any news about this bug? Has someone affected by this bug sent the report upstream? May you tell us the bug number? Thanks in advance.

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Matej Svetlík (matej-svetlik) wrote :

I'm not sure if I can count https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605644 as an upstream bugreport. Maybe this is just a personal prefrence and you should close this "bug".

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in empathy:
status: New → Expired
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