On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschm...@kde.org> wrote: > Heya, > > as we noticed recently, many of Amarok's ToolTips look very ugly and > have readability issues because they are not formatted. Therefore a > longer ToolTip is being rendered as one giant long line. The Qt API > offers automatic formatting with line-breaks for ToolTips, but there > is an ugly API quirk: The formatting can only be switched on by adding > a <html> tag to the string. In theory a wrapper could be created for > QWidget::setToolTip() and friends, but this wouldn't play nice with Qt > Designer. > > I think for consistency's sake it would be ideal to simply switch on > automatic formatting for *all* of our ToolTips, and not bother with > manual line-breaks. This is also because with translations it's > impossible to know the final length and look of the strings. The > downside is, we would have to change nearly all ToolTip strings in > Amarok (this could be done with some clever sed use). > > What do you think is the best way to go forward?
To illustrate the issue, have a look at this screenshot: http://wstaw.org/m/2013/08/19/plasma-desktopmh2376.png -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
