Bug #51046 Tooltips don't appear when using Ubuntu 8.04 package

• Submitted: 9 Feb 2010 23:49
• Modified: 13 May 2010 22:28
• Reporter: Craig Fowler
• Status: Won't fix
• Category: MySQL Workbench
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.2.15
• OS: Linux (Debian Squeeze 32-bit/Ubuntu 8.04 .deb package)
• Assigned to: Alfredo Kojima
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: ToolTip, UI

[9 Feb 2010 23:49] Craig Fowler

Description:
When hovering my mouse cursor over any control that should have a tooltip, they do not appear.

How to repeat:
I had a quick chat about this with Alfredo over IRC in th wee hours of the morning.  Here are the relevant bits:

<ToreadorVampire> In fact, I'm seeing no tooltips for anything at all
<akojima> hm thats very strange.. do other apps get them?
<akojima> oh i see
<ToreadorVampire> Yes, Firefox shows tooltips
<akojima> tooltip API is not in older apps
<akojima> i mean, older GTK api
<akojima> #if GTK_VERSION_GT(2,10)
<akojima>       btn->set_tooltip_text(item.tooltip);
<akojima> #endif
<akojima> what package did you say you're using?
<ToreadorVampire> 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04 .deb (the one that uses Python 2.5 instead of 2.6)
<akojima> what version of gtk does it use?
<akojima> well, at least it can be worked around

Hopefully this issue won't be high-priority for me, since as of the next WB release I plan to install Python 2.6 and use the ubuntu 9.10 package instead of the 8.04 package (I understand the difference was that the 9.10 package is compiled against Python 2.6 which I didn't have installed).

[13 May 2010 22:28] Alfredo Kojima

Marking Won't fix as effort to fix and maintain code specific for older GTK API is higher than
it is worth. Also Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was already released, making 8.04 on the way to unsupported land.