[pygtk] Tooltips on MenuItem and ui_manager

[Timo]

On 08-09-10 15:39, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Timo wrote:
>    
>> On 08-09-10 09:51, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
>>      
>>> here is the code that shows what I mean. The action 'Test' has a tooltip in
>>> the ToolButton and not in the meny entry:
>>>
>>> thanks in advance for any possible hint/explanation
>>>        
>> Connect the uimanager to the connect-proxy signal, there you can set
>> tooltips to the menuitems.
>> See in-code for a working implementation.
>>      
> Thanks Timo. This solves my need.
>
> I still don't understand the logig behind the fact that tooltips are only
> activated for Tool items and not for menu Items...
>
>
>    
I don't know, but I never saw a program with tooltips on the menuitems, 
they always show up in the statusbar. Maybe it is against some (GNOME?) 
guidelines to do it.

Well, glad it helped.
Cheers,
Timo

> sandro
> *:-)
>