How the HELL do I disable Tooltips completely in Win2k SP4?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-10-06 09:39pm

I'm having a hell of a time with tooltip popups in gaim, Mozilla, etc. They appear at the drop of a hat, refuse to disappear at all until certain inconvenient conditions are met, and TweakUI doesn't do DICK about it!

HEEEELLP!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-06 09:42pm

TweakUI cannot reliably affect the behavior of third-party applications, especially not ones that use the Windows GUI toolkit.

GAIM's tooltip behavior, unfortunately, is very poor on Windows. That is probably because it uses the GTK toolset ported to Windows rather than the native interface. Thus, you get problems like tooltips popping up in unexpected places. I've found the best solution is to bring the pointer over to a blank spot in your buddy list and let the tooltop dismiss itself. GAIM 1.0's behavior is better, BTW.

Similarly, the Mozilla products use the XUL toolkit for their user interface so you might want to do something similar to the above.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-10-06 09:48pm

phongn wrote:TweakUI cannot reliably affect the behavior of third-party applications, especially not ones that use the Windows GUI toolkit.

GAIM's tooltip behavior, unfortunately, is very poor on Windows. That is probably because it uses the GTK toolset ported to Windows rather than the native interface. Thus, you get problems like tooltips popping up in unexpected places. I've found the best solution is to bring the pointer over to a blank spot in your buddy list and let the tooltop dismiss itself. GAIM 1.0's behavior is better, BTW.

Similarly, the Mozilla products use the XUL toolkit for their user interface so you might want to do something similar to the above.

Wagh, that's exactly the problem I describe. That's also the "kludge" I use to 'fix' it, but I'd rather the damn TTs never come up at all anyway.

TweakUI has no provisions for tooltips at all anyway, so that point's moot.

Is there a XUL/GTK UI tweaker for Windows? Probly not but the only stupid question is the one which remains unasked. Thanks anyway, Phong.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-06 09:56pm

You could manually attempt to hack the WIMP GTK theme and the XUL theme you're using.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-10-06 10:05pm

phongn wrote:You could manually attempt to hack the WIMP GTK theme and the XUL theme you're using.

Eey0uch. I'm not that 31337... yet.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-10-08 01:03am

http://fox2k.net/2ktweaks/misc_tips.htm ... 20ToolTips