Description: There is no way to turn off tooltips for hyperlinks without turning them off for toolbars also. When hovering over a clickable user index, the hyperlink tooltips obscure the content. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a user index. Make its entries clickable. 2.hover over any entry in the index 3.watch the tooltip prevent you from reading that entry and others. Actual Results: Not only is the tooltip in the way, it's poorly designed to include unreadable symbols that make it much larger than it needs to be. Expected Results: A much better system would be to place the link's target in the status bar, out of the way, as browsers do. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Currently, at Options / Advanced / Expert, disabling Display / Help / Tip nukes all tooltips, including the desirable ones on the toolbars, so that is not a solution. More granularity is needed.
Here's an example of this problem. https://i.postimg.cc/dtB0B5b7/2025-03-21-36-3.png
Please attach a sample file, reduce the size as much as possible without private information, and paste the information in Menu/Help/About LibreOffice, there is a copy icon.
Created attachment 199953 [details] SAMPLE FILE Problem is for all hyperlinks, Index and ToC.
It seems that the distance from the tip text to the link is not always well calculated. Seems a refresh regression. Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 81dfc7afcdc473bd655ff64038e8a449a9999c0c CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-GB Calc: CL threaded
Perhaps, but the size and the location anywhere over the document are to me more fundamental problems.
I have found this entry after keywords "Libre office hover abschalten" ecosia in German, because I was irritated by the constant hovering at styles, which repeats only the style name but disrupts the working flow. Oh I see other people have also problems with the "Hovers" or "Tool tips". There is a general problem. As sayed here in the comment m_a_riosv 2025-03-22 16:23:19 UTC the distance is often too less. Secondly Paul 2025-03-22 10:47:05 UTC : "A much better system would be to place the link's target in the status bar, out of the way, as browsers do." That's a proper idea. But the third is: Show hovers only if the operator want to have it !! This is possible to a) combine Hover showing with a key as "shift" or "ctrl" on keyboard b) Show a tooltip only be pressing right mouse (for example on Icons to show what they mean). It is a question of context. Instead currently, the context menu on Icons shows unexpected stuff (should be discussed). c) Switch on/off hovering for dedicated situations, not in "tools-options", to complicated, instead on the appropriate Window itself, with context menu (right mouse) or specific chech boxes for example in Styles Window beside "[X] Show preview" and "[X] Spotlight". All in all, there is a big problem with the hovers, seems to be not only for me. I suggest, some programmer like hovering, but does the users do? Needs a User Interface discussion!