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PoC: Show tooltips on keyboard navigation

Felix Ernst requested to merge (removed):keyboard_tooltips into master

This commit implements an idea Noah Davis was explaining in the VDG chat room. I agreed that it was worth considering so I created this MR so one can actually test it a bit and see how it feels. This MR isn't necessarily meant to go anywhere and I will make it very obvious in the MR description if this ever evolves into something that might actually be merged.

This commit makes it so if one is using the keyboard to navigate through any application using a KMainWindow, the tooltips of the widgets will appear after a slight delay.

This probably has many unintended consequences and isn't meant to be merged any time soon or even at all. However this would make tooltips available to keyboard-only users.

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It might be that people that are advanced enough to only use the keyboard aren't terribly likely to be interested in tooltips. I also think there would be accessibility problems because AFAIK screen readers would read the tooltips showing up.(Noah tested this.)

However Steam Deck users (which Noah probably had in mind when talking about this) might be interested in tooltips even though they aren't using a mouse.

Anyways, maybe this is worth discussing. Maybe not.

cc @ndavis, @teams/vdg

Edited by Felix Ernst

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