Hello tilix developers!
I want to thank you for the work done - I have been using your terminal for about a year at home and at work.
I like everything - but I found one function that I want to use - but unfortunately it is not available at the moment.
I searched for tickets, plus search in the code and did not find a mention this feature in this repository.
1. Feature desc
Please implement the function terminal show a tooltip when your mouse hovers over a link.
This function is needed not only for direct use - displaying the target of a hyperlink. I use tooltip to show extended info in terminal for objects (files, packages etc)
This use case is shown in the screenshot of the xiate terminal below.
2. Examples of what it looks like:
This functionality is implemented in at least two terminals
2.1 gnome-terminal
An example of what it looks like on my gnome terminal
Hello tilix developers! I want to thank you for the work done - I have been using your terminal for about a year at home and at work. I like everything - but I found one function that I want to use - but unfortunately it is not available at the moment.
I searched for tickets, plus search in the code and did not find a mention this feature in this repository.
1. Feature desc
Please implement the function terminal show a tooltip when your mouse hovers over a link.
This function is needed not only for direct use - displaying the target of a hyperlink. I use tooltip to show extended info in terminal for objects (files, packages etc) This use case is shown in the screenshot of the xiate terminal below.
2. Examples of what it looks like:
This functionality is implemented in at least two terminals
2.1 gnome-terminal
An example of what it looks like on my gnome terminal
2.2) xiate terminal
An example of how it looks in the project blog
Source: https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2018-04-14/0/POSTING-en.html
3. Usage examples in tilix
I wanted to make a patch - but I haven't been able to figure out the tilix sources yet.
As far as I understand from the sources, you are already using the toolkit to display some information in the GUI. For example here: https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/blob/5008e73a278a97871ca3628ee782fbad445917e7/source/gx/tilix/prefeditor/bookmarkeditor.d#L62
This is an example of how the tooltip looks like when hovering over a button "+" in the tilix interface:
4. Hyperlink tooltip implementation example on GTK
Both projects use the
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text()function to display the tooltip text4.1. XIATE
Here is a commit in another project - where this feature is implemented. https://www.uninformativ.de/git/xiate/commit/e4739e66255938b0ac324261713863ef15a7b6c7.html#h0-0
4.2. Gnome terminal
This commit https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal/commit/1c6f8db736efc62d9a9b38bfbc43ec03c8544696 This line in file https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal/blob/1c6f8db736efc62d9a9b38bfbc43ec03c8544696/src/terminal-window.c#L3143