This is something that has plagued me for a while, I just finally took the time testing things to find out what was causing file tips not to show up on my system. This has been happening with the kde 3.5.X, and may have been doing this with 3.4.X. In a Konqueror file browsing window, I select "Settings->Configure Konqueror" menu. Select the "Behavior" icon, and select "Show file tips" and "Show previews in file tips" checkboxes. According to this, I should be able to hover my mouse over icons and get file tips. Well it actually only works if the following is also set: Bring up "Control Center" select "Appearance & Themes", select "Style" in the list box, and select the "Style" tab. Then select the "Enable Tooltips" checkbox. Without this, file tips do not display. "Enable Tooltips" shouldn't be required to view file tips. They are two different things. This is probably something that needs to be reported upstream. Thanks for all your hard work! Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-ck4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck4 i686 Unknown CPU Typ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext S3TC X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 arts asf asm audiofile berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom crypt css cups curl dga dlloader dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss emoticon encode fame ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gimp glut gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip ieee1394 imagemagick imlib imlib2 input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard iproute2 jack java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde lame libwww live logitech-mouse lzo mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer musicbrainz nas ncurses network nforce2 nls nntp no-old-linux nomalloccheck nptl nptlonly nsplugin nspr nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdf perl png python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba scanner sdl spell sse ssl subtitles svg sysfs tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb userlocales v4l2 vcd video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
> This is probably something that needs to be reported upstream. We do so for critical/security bugs, but can't do it for every single bug or request. I can reproduce this, but I'm quite sure the kde.org guys will categorize a change in behaviour as a wish. Go go for it, but make sure to have searched before. Probably someone else already did request it.
