Transparency on the new tooltips not working in Firefox?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 20:30:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:02 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 12:52 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > I haven't rebooted yet, but I've noticed the new tooltips are showing up
> > in newly-launched apps for me. Oddly, I can see the transparency in
> > Rhythmbox - I can partially see through the tooltip to rest of the
> > Rhythmbox interface 'below' - but not Firefox. The tooltips in Firefox
> > appear completely opaque. Just thought it was an oddity worth
> > mentioning.
> > 
> Indeed, I can confirm the firefox seem to use engine rendered tooltips.
> WebKit based browsers (I've tested midori and chromium) use the
> refreshed ones.
> 
> Maybe firefox bypases gtk and calls the engine functions itself for
> tooltips -- after all, it just emulates gtk...

Right, I forgot that. Well, if it's all down to Firefox's weirdness I
guess there's not much to do about it...

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