Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and those damn "balloons"

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:28:03 -0400
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com

    Basil Chupin wrote:
    > Peter B Van Campen wrote:
    >
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I've been seeing these on 8.2; but I noticed that by changing some of
    >> the size options in the KDE control panel related to the task bar I
    >> was able to make the icons on the bar bigger. The 'tool-tip' balloons
    >> are now reliatively smaller and therefore avoidable.
    >>
    >> PeterB
    >>
    >> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 09:08 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
    >>
    >>> Anyone know how to get rid of, or at least minimise their display time,
    >>> the description "balloons" which come up when the cursor is hovered over
    >>> the set of icons on bottom RH of the taskbar?
    >>>
    >>> The "balloon(s)" come up, cover the icon, won't go away for ages, and
    >>> the icon can't be clicked to activate because the "balloon(s)" is/are
    >>> covering it/them.
    >>>
    >>> (Suse v 7.1 is looking good at this point in time.)
    >>>
    >>> Cheers.
    >
    >
    > But doing what you suggest defeats how I want my desktop to look and
    > behave, and the software should do what I want and not me adjusting to
    > what the software decides how things should look.

    I guess they're trying to keep things familiar for Windows users. ;-)

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