tooltip on desktop switcher behaves incorrectly

My wife just pointed this out to me as well, after upgrading to Edgy.

Thanks for your bug

Oops, wrong button.

I've been trying to see if I can figure out what is going on here. Would I be right in thinking that libwnck_2.16.1-0ubuntu1.diff.gz is the Ubuntu patch to the Debian patch to the libwnck source code?

I think the learning curve here might be just a little too steep for me :-(

the diff.gz is the packaging changes over the upstream tarball, you can use "apt-get source libwnck" to get the source package downloaded and decompressed to your current directory

Is this still a problem?

That's still happening on feisty

It's worth noting that on Fedora 6 they display no tooltip.

We display tooltips because that's a good way to indicate to new users what the applet is doing

Hi, I see that this is a low priority, and there are of course much bigger issues to address. Knowing this, does anyone know when this will be fixed?

when somebody sends a patch fixing the problem

How can I disable the tooltip. I find it annoying and obnoxious. Thanks.

As do I. This is only aesthetic, but it existed with the last major release
of Ubuntu. I was a bit surprised by that. I look forward to seeing this
bug fixed. I like the working tooltips from 6.06.

On 6/1/07, Aaron Toponce <email address hidden> wrote:
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> How can I disable the tooltip. I find it annoying and obnoxious.
> Thanks.
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I'm not only talking about the flicker, but the entire tooltip in and of itself. I don't want that displaying every time my mouse hovers that area. Please, how can I completely disable the entire tooltip? I don't want it. Never have, never will. Thanks.

libwnck (2.19.4-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Features
    - Show workspace names in the window selector
    - Add support for _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS.
      wnck_window_get_client_window_geometry() is a new API and
      wnck_window_get_geometry() now returns the geometry including the window
      manager decorations
    - Add wnck_screen_get_number() API
    - Add wnck_screen_get_window_manager_name() API and window-manager-changed
      signal
    Deprecations
    - Deprecate wnck_gtk_window_set_dock_type()
    - Deprecate wnck_pager_set_screen()
    - Deprecate wnck_tasklist_set_screen()
    - Deprecate the screen argument of wnck_pager_new() and of
      wnck_tasklist_new()
    Fixes
    - Code cleanups
    - Make wnck_screen_net_wm_supports() work on all screens
    - Do not forget about the "Make below" action for the default possible
      actions
    - Rework selection ownership for the desktop layout: do not steal it and
      release it
    - Do not change the layout shown in the pager if the the pager couldn't
      update the layout hint
    - Make the pager use the real layout of the screen when it cannot set the
      layout
    - Use g_timeout_add_seconds() when possible
    - Migrate to new GtkTooltip API
    - Add some safety guards to the public API
    - Improve position of the drag icon when dragging a window
    - Make wnck_pid_read_resource_usage() work for more X clients
    - Fix a crash happening sometimes when a tasklist is destroyed
    - Be more solid against invalid values for _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS
    - Do not skip taskbar for transient windows if the window they're transient
      for don't exist
    - Fix a crash when dragging a window to somewhere like another
      workspace/viewport (LP: #94201)
    - Make WnckSelector and WnckTasklist correctly work from bindings
    - Fix crash on multihead setups introduced in 2.19.3
    - Fix potential invalidity of the previously active window when there are
      multiple screens
    Misc
    - Totally rework API documentation
    - New wnckprop utility, not installed by default
    - Require glib 2.13.0
    - Require GTK+ 2.11.3
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated glib and gtk requirements
  * debian/patches/01_workspaces_tooltips.patch:
    - use the new GTK tooltip API (LP: #63483, #90878)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:45:20 +0200