Comment 33 for bug 239462

I've been looking at how this is handled in other applications. In GNOME/GTK+, the tooltips appear after a 0.5 second delay and then stay until you move off the object. Adobe Reader 8 is the same. In OOo, tooltips appear instantaneously on mouseover and disappear if you move off the object or after a few seconds have elapsed.

I haven't found a case of the tooltip disappearing as soon as the mouse is moved (i.e. still over the object). I see the logic in not having a timeout, but hiding the tooltip on any mouse movement doesn't seem to be consistent with other applications' behaviour.

Do you think that doing away with the autohide timer alone will achieve the desired behaviour?