Link destination popup on hover
donjan opened this issue · comments
Using ReText 8.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04.
Enabled the WebEngine renderer option (had to pip install PyQt6-WebEngine).
With live preview on.
Observed behaviour
When hovering over a link, nothing happens. The user must either click the link or copy the address and paste it, to know what the link points to.
Expected behaviour
A popup should appear, showing the destination URL.
Either in the bottom left, as with most web browsers:
Or floating near the link, as in LibreOffice Writer:
Awesome :-) !! -- because I miss this feature for a long time! Few hours ago I spotted this issue and was hooked again!
→ I'm on it (again -- years ago I tried hacking qt-stuff for exactly this reason but got tired and failed)
A bit more work is to be done before pull-request:
As noted in the commit itself I want to drop the statusbar implementation and go with a 'custom Widget or so' resulting in a »bottom left, as with most web browsers«-solution which I want to upvote as this exactly killed me back then ^^
I aim for something like a small class urlPopup(QtWidgets.QWidget): […] but done for today…
(hints, ideas welcome)
This one works for me until a qt professional shows how to do it right :-)
Show link target in lower left corner ✓
Compare with master: master...red-kite:retext:showLinkOnHover
@red-kite thanks for implementing this!
I've had it patched in for a while now, works perfectly.
Would love to see this mainlined, any movement on your PR?
