I tried briefly the new tooltips and have two remarks:

1/ there should be no delay before the tootips appear, since the user
explicitely asked for them (like MacOS bubble help)

2/ Now I see that activating them via menu (or toolbar) is a pain: you
open a dialog and find you want some help. Therefore you select
"What's this" in the _main_ window (and your dialog loses focus); then
you have to set focus again on the dialog to actually get help. That's
a pain.

The solution could be a "what's this" checkbox (or a ? pixmap icon
toggle) on each dialog supporting this.

However, I believe a better solution would be to display the tooltip
on right click on a widget. Angus, would that be possible? In this
case, we could get rid of the "what's this?" toggle.

JMarc

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