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Make tool tips indicate the action that a click will acheive #3539

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Lonniebiz opened this issue Dec 29, 2021 · 1 comment
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Make tool tips indicate the action that a click will acheive #3539

Lonniebiz opened this issue Dec 29, 2021 · 1 comment
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@Lonniebiz Lonniebiz commented Dec 29, 2021 •
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The tool tips that display, upon hovering over a window's title-bar-buttons, would be more helpful to newcomers if the text shown was based on the current state of that toggle button.

For example, if a window is maximized, the tool tip could say "unmaximize", and if the window is not maximized it could say "maximize". Similar state-based tool-tips could be applied to all title-bar-buttons, instead of just statically displaying the same text across all states.

I realize that the icons themselves change based on state, but as a new user (who is unfamiliar with these pictorial states), I would appreciate tool tips that are more dynamically informative and less static. I understand that a lot of advanced users remove these title bars completely. So, it would be nice if their behavior catered more to newcomers.

awesome v4.3 (Too long)
• Compiled against Lua 5.3.3 (running with Lua 5.3)
• D-Bus support: ✔
• execinfo support: ✔
• xcb-randr version: 1.6
• LGI version: 0.9.2
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@Aire-One Aire-One commented Dec 30, 2021 •
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Hello,

That's actually a "nice to have" improvement!

The titlebar buttons builder function already sets default tooltips with the button name :

awesome/lib/awful/titlebar.lua

Lines 758 to 761 in 7451c69

if titlebar.enable_tooltip then
ret._private.tooltip = atooltip({ objects = {ret}, delay_show = 1 })
ret._private.tooltip:set_text(name)
end

I think it shouldn't be too hard to update the text based on the "active" status in this update function. This would be do-able by new contributors 😉
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