Comment 75 for bug 239462

I've tested John's latest patch with Minefield and it seems to work fine.

With the 5-second timer display model, I wasn't aware that pressing a Shift or Ctrl key made the tooltip pop down. With our modified tooltip behaviour, this feature is quite handy. However, it does produce an inconsistency: if one pops down the tooltip through mouse movement, it stays down; if one pops down the tooltip using the shift key, it can pop up again before mouseout.

I'm not sure whether this inconsistency should be considered a problem or desirable behaviour, as it gives the user additional control over the tooltip. This feature could also solve one of the problems previously mentioned (object larger than viewing area), so I suggest we stick with the behaviour of the current patch.