On Monday 28 September 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 28 September 2009 16:38:13 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 28 September 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Monday 28 September 2009 11:28:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Monday 28 September 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> >On Sunday 27 September 2009 22:42:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >> Greetings;
> >> >>
> >> >> I have one rather exasperating function I wish I could either turn
> >> >> off, or relocate.
> >> >>
> >> >> It's in kmail, the little "helpful" (not) gizmo that
pops up if you
> >> >> leave the mouse sitting on an icon. It is useful for some things,
> >> >> but I have kmail setup with the message list pane left of the
> >> >> message pane, which puts the messages panes subject line not too
> >> >> far below the icons along the top of the main window.
> >> >>
> >> >> And when it pops up, it takes about a minute for it to go way,
> >> >> during which time the messages subject line is hidden. Having to
> >> >> move the mouse to a clear place when I want to switch to the +
key,
> >> >> and back again tends to aggravate my arthritis.
> >> >>
> >> >> Can this be relocated to a point above the icon, or can the
display
> >> >> timeout be set down to maybe 2 seconds? If so, what file do I
edit
> >> >> to accomplish this?
> >> >
> >> >It's not entirely clear which tooltip you are referring to, but go
to
> >> >http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips and it's probably
> >> > 2.7 or 2.8 that you need.
> >> >
> >> >Anne
> >>
> >> In particular, the one for the next button, Anne. Thanks, when I do
> >> get up for good, I'll check that link out.
> >
> >You'll find plenty that's useful there, Gene, but it won't solve
this
> >particular problem. I think that is a system-wide setting, so try
> >systemsettings > Appearance > Windows > Buttons tab > Show window
button
> >tooltips
> >
> >Anne
>
> That also seems to be a no-op, it was, I cycled it, left it off & clicked
> apply, but when I park the mouse over the next arrow, a tooltip will pop
> up in a short time, and which covers the left end of that messages
> subject line.
>
> I am rather not inclined to move .kde as that means I'd have to spend a
> couple of long days rebuilding the message sort filters among other
> things.
>
> I would love to see kde break the kmailrc file up in subcategories as
> separate files, keeping everything kmail related in the kmailrc has led
> to several extensive, re-inventing the wheel by starting with the fuel
> injectors type rebuilds over the years.
>
> Thanks for trying, Anne.
You did restart kmail, didn't you?
Anne
No, it has always responded instantly to any changes I made previously. This
isn't winderz, where installing a mouse driver take 4 reboots. :) And a
restart or reboot will not change anything now as this has been this way for
a couple of weeks. It was last restarted 4 days ago when I installed kernel
2.6.31.1.
--
Cheers, Gene
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