Issue 96717 - An option to disable page/heading tooltips while scrolling
Summary: An option to disable page/heading tooltips while scrolling
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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: 100612 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2008-11-30 00:13 UTC by wise_ferret
Modified: 2013-08-29 09:14 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description wise_ferret 2008-11-30 00:13:17 UTC 
When using mouse wheel to scroll through a writer document with chapters,
headings or other kinds of sections, the current section name pops up as a
tooltip next to the mouse pointer.

Unfortunately, this is exactly the where the human eye is trying to read the
document text. The tooltip gets in the eye's way. Navigating by scrolling
becomes thus much more difficult than it should be. There is no way of disabling
this annoying feature without disabling tooltips altogether.

I would like to have the option to disable mouse wheel originated tooltips
without having to disable all tooltips. This should ideally be set using a
checkbox in the options->general sextion, right next to 'extended tips'.
Comment 1 wise_ferret 2008-11-30 00:42:49 UTC 
This issue is especially problematic when dealing with bidi text. The tooltip
appears to the left of the cursor. When working with an rtl document or section
this means that the tooltip hides all the text coming AFTER the pointer, not
before it, which is uncomfortable.

Since switching the position of the tooltip on the fly according to
directionality of the section hovered over is not practical, I think that a
method to disable the automatic tooltip upon mouse scrolling is the way to go.
Comment 2 wise_ferret 2008-11-30 00:43:17 UTC 
This issue is especially problematic when dealing with bidi text. The tooltip
appears to the left of the cursor. When working with an rtl document or section
this means that the tooltip hides all the text coming AFTER the pointer, not
before it, which is uncomfortable.

Since switching the position of the tooltip on the fly according to
directionality of the section hovered over is not practical, I think that a
method to disable the automatic tooltip upon mouse scrolling is the way to go.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2008-11-30 09:34:18 UTC 
As the user stated: especially ennoying while working in  BiDi documents but
also irritating in other documents... +1

Reassigned
Comment 4 eric.savary 2009-03-30 09:25:16 UTC 
*** Issue 100612 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 Joe Smith 2009-10-20 14:55:41 UTC 
Same as Issue 25945?
Comment 6 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-29 09:14:53 UTC 
The tooltip can obscure text when zoom >= fit width and heading text is longer than page margin.
this tooltip should be canceled - heading text is useless and page x of y is available at bottom status bar.

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