Qt status tips do not appear with Unity menubar

Bug #1068974 reported by W. J. van der Laan
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appmenu-qt
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libdbusmenu (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In Qt it is possible to define so-called "status tips" on QActions with setStatusTip. These provide a short help message in the status bar of the application when the user selects a menu option. This is like a tooltip, but for menu items.

However, in Ubuntu Precise (appmenu-qt version 0.2.6) the status tips don't appear at all. They do appear when defining "QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR" so it is clear that the problem lies with appmenu-qt.

I've quickly checked the code, and there appears to be no facility to export the status tips or to show them when the user selects the menu item.

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

I'd say this is more a dbus menu bug/wish since it does not seem to have the concept of status tips for menu items thus appmenu-qt can't export them.

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