[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3356) tooltips for the indicator icons (gtk2)

["Stepan Roh via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Jason Short via RT wrote:

>
> The attached patch provides tooltips for the indicator icons on the left.
>
> Adding one extra layer of GtkEventBox'es was needed (for the
> bulb/sun/flake/government icons) since a GtkImage can't hold a tooltip.
>
> Rather than adding an extra GtkEventBox for the tax icons, I just added
> the tooltip separately to each already-existing event box.  This means
> each tax icon has its own tooltip (although they are all the same).
> This could be fixed, but it means changing more code...
>
> The texts for the icons are rather poor.  In particular, I had no idea
> what most of them did before I sat down to write descriptive texts for
> them.  Anything better would be welcome.

Tooltips should say not only what the indicator means (like "Global
warming indicator"), but also its state (how much bad is global warming).
(See updated PR#2761).

Stepan Roh