[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Hob GUI add persistent tooltips and use custom info icon consistently

[Joshua Lock]

On 15/03/12 23:41, Wang, Shane wrote:
>
> Joshua Lock wrote on 2012-03-03:
>
>> Whoops. Forgot to hit save in my editor before sending... The message
>> should be:
>>
>> The following series addresses some issues I've raised with the Hob
>> implementation. Firstly it introduces two new widgets, a generic
>> PersistentTooltip widget which is an implementation of a tooltip like
>> widget that persists until the user explicitly dismisses it, this
>> matches the Hob interaction design more closely. The second widget is a
>> button-like widget using the info icon from the visual design which,
>> when clicked, will display a persistent tooltip.
>>
>> The series then replaces all known instances of a gtk.Image containing
>> the stock info item plus a standard tooltip with the new HobInfoButton.
>>
>> The final patch, to ensure consistency, special cases the stock info
>> icon in the CrumbsMesssageDialog so that any dialogues which show an
>> info icon will display the custom icon per the visual design.
>>
>> I've attached a few screenshots showing the PersistentTooltip and
>> HobInfoButton's in use.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Joshua
>
> Josh, I am using Ubuntu system, the color of your tooltips is gray and the background of a window is black.
> I found it is difficult for me to see the words.
> I am wondering whether that is what you want, and whether we can make them white.

Hi Shane,

This isn't intended - I discovered this bug via proxy recently: 
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2128

I'm working to make the tooltips more readable when using Ubuntu with Unity.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua '贾詡' Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre