On my Linux box running Mozilla classic, tooltips have no border around them, and blend into the UI. For example, the tooltip for "Work Offline" in the lower-left ends up blending in so much I didn't notice it the first few times.

I don't have Linux, QA --> Claudius.

might this be different on a per window manager basis? I ask because my tooltips appear in 'sticky post-it note' yellow and are hard to miss. I running gnome on Redhat Linux. cc'ing some other folks who might have comment

Mine are yellow, but, yes, do not have a 1px solid black border. Of course, I never noticed that before now, so ...

The problem is in KDE 2, if anyone else wants to try that. Gray + no 1 px border = very hard to see

ok, so the problem as i see it is there is no 1px border around tooltip on Linux - like there is on Win and Mac. If that is the case then i see that as more than just a design issue, it's a real bug in platform parity. jrgm, would this sort of thing be XPToolkit's bag?

cc'ing pink [you dealt w/tooltips, right?] if this is a toolkit issue. also cc'ing terri, since tooltips are help-ish stuff.

The style for the tooltip in classic is this (and this could be "fixed" by changing the CSS for the classic skin on linux): http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/themes/classic/global/win/menu.css#203 206 .tooltip 207 { 208 background-color : infobackground; 209 border : 1px solid windowframe; 210 color : infotext; 211 font-size : smaller; 212 padding : 2px; 213 max-width : 40em; 214 } 'windowframe' maps to a faint grey color (rh6.1/gnome). Hence, no visible border. [I expect the problem with the background color has to do with the same type of issue for 'infobackground' on aaronl's WM, although I'm not sure if this dependent on WM, or not]. Is this where that color is retrieved? http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/widget/src/gtk/nsLookAndFeel.cpp#192 191 case eColor_window: 192 case eColor_windowframe: 193 aColor = GDK_COLOR_TO_NS_RGB(mStyle->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL]); 194 break; (in modern the border color is hard-coded #000000, and a black border appears on the tooltip. No problem there.).

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Yes, from what I can see it's using gray. In classic, that's a problem, because it's the same color as the tooltip background (at least on KDE2). In modern, I'm seeing the gray border show up now, for the left top and right only. There is still no border on the bottom.

What am I doing with this bug? Shoo! --> XP Toolkit/Widgets

Adding to this bug instead of opening a new one (seems to be related). With the latest trunk as well as 0.9.2 release, tooltips are behaving funky. If modern is the applied theme, tooltips in a page will show up with a black border all around. The tooltips from hovering over links in the link bar, however, lack a bottom border.

Mass reassigning my theme bugs to Shuehan.

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 (you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've moved)

fixed

Verified on linix (2001-12-20-08-trunk)

*** Bug 112226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***