Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange

[Jan D.]

> Ideally there shouldn't be a need to customize the appearance of
> tooltips.  It would be desirable if Emacs "simply" used tooltips
> provided by the toolkit it was configured for (in case the toolkit
> supports tooltips).  This would, for example, also eliminate the need
> to re-customize their appearance in case one changes the theme of a
> themeable toolkit.
>
> But I guess there are more pressing things to do for the next
> release.

Actually this has been talked about before, as part of Emacs and 
GTK/Gnome integration.  I did some modifiactions to have Emacs use GTK 
tooltips when built for GTK, I guess I have that patch lying around 
somewhere.  I'll try to get it in after this release.

        Jan D.