allow tips to autohide; having them just stay there forever and ever is an annoyance. some tips need to be permanent to be useful though (e.g. on the clock) so introduced a way to make that happen. needed to get this in before we go BC =)

svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma/; revision=876166

private/tooltip.cpp

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ class ToolTipPrivate
           imageLabel(0),
           preview(0),
           windowToPreview(0),
-          source(s)
+          source(s),
+          autohide(true)
     { }
 
     QLabel *label;
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ class ToolTipPrivate
     WId windowToPreview;
     PanelSvg *background;
     QPointer<QObject> source;
+    bool autohide;
 };
 
 void ToolTip::showEvent(QShowEvent *e)
@@ -115,6 +117,7 @@ void ToolTip::setContent(const ToolTipManager::Content &data)
     d->imageLabel->setPixmap(data.image);
     d->windowToPreview = data.windowToPreview;
     d->preview->setWindowId(d->windowToPreview);
+    d->autohide = data.autohide;
 
     if (isVisible()) {
         resize(sizeHint());
@@ -162,6 +165,11 @@ void ToolTip::sourceDestroyed()
     d->source = 0;
 }
 
+bool ToolTip::autohide() const
+{
+    return d->autohide;
+}
+
 void ToolTip::updateTheme()
 {
     d->background->setImagePath("widgets/tooltip");

private/tooltip_p.h

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public:
     void setContent(const ToolTipManager::Content &data);
     void prepareShowing(bool cueUpdate);
     void setActivated(bool value);
-    bool isActivated();
+    bool autohide() const;
 
 protected:
     void showEvent(QShowEvent *);

tooltipmanager.cpp

@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ ToolTipManager *ToolTipManager::self()
 }
 
 ToolTipManager::Content::Content()
-    : windowToPreview(0)
+    : windowToPreview(0),
+      autohide(true)
 {
 }
 
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ void ToolTipManager::show(QGraphicsWidget *widget)
     }
 
     if (d->currentWidget) {
-        hide(d->currentWidget);
+        //hide(d->currentWidget);
     }
 
     d->hideTimer->stop();
@@ -373,6 +374,12 @@ void ToolTipManagerPrivate::showToolTip()
     tooltip->move(popupPosition(currentWidget, tooltip->size()));
     isShown = true;  //ToolTip is visible
     tooltip->setVisible(true);
+
+    if (tooltip->autohide()) {
+        //kDebug() << "starting authoide";
+        delayedHide = true;
+        hideTimer->start(3000);
+    }
 }
 
 bool ToolTipManager::eventFilter(QObject *watched, QEvent *event)

tooltipmanager.h

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ public:
         QPixmap image;
         /** Id of a window if you want to show a preview */
         WId windowToPreview;
+        /** Whether or not to autohide the tooltip, defaults to true */
+        bool autohide;
     };
 
     /**