Should menu items have tooltips?

qdot / systray-rs

Allows rust applications to show a platform specific system tray icon and menu.

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Should menu items have tooltips? #14

Closed qdot closed 7 years ago

qdot commented 7 years ago

On linux, at least, this could be a thing. I'm not sure whether it'd be a /good/ thing, but it could totally be a thing.

jonhoo commented 7 years ago

To me personally this is not all that important :p

daniel-abramov commented 7 years ago

It seems that on Mac such possibility does not exist. There are no tooltips for other applications (including system ones). And judging from the official documentation, the tooltip property is deprecated (https://developer.apple.com/reference/appkit/nsstatusitem), the configuration for the tray icon itself has to be done via button property which basically is a NSButton.

qdot commented 7 years ago

Yeah, just checked on my mac, the only thing that pops a tooltip on mouseover is Dropbox, and they're probably doing something special to pull that off. Gonna WONTFIX this at least, as I think tooltip per menu item would probably get silly fast.