[stellation-res] #34471 Comment HoverText: Status/Proposed Action

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Earlier today, I installed GTK 2.0.9 and rechecked the 'comment hovertext' 
problem.
It still occurs.
I have not yet tried GTK 2.2.1, but am probably not going to do so, at 
least for now.
Reason: it seems wiser to try something new, since Mark and Jonathan aren't 
wild
about hovertext (at least as currently used for displaying comments).

I'd like to try a different approach: using a TableTree widget for selecting
revisions and displaying revision attributes (date, comments, author...)
This avoids the use of hovertext completely, and will probably provide more
consistent look & feel with Eclipse platform conventions.  (for example, the
PropertySheet viewer uses a TableTree widget).  The TableTree widget also
supports cell (field) editors, which is likely to be useful.

I will start working on a trial TableTree-based implementation shortly, unless
someone has a better suggestion.  Once a rough version is prototyped,
I'd like to get feedback and refine as needed.

Since hovertext (and hover widget panels) still seem useful for other purposes,
I will also post a Bugzilla report and see if the SWT GTK team can get it 
resolved.

Regards,
Jim

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