Workaround for crashing when many tooltips are shown consecutively#563
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Add delay of 100ms before showing dock tooltips:
Fixes #559. After researching it, the culprit seems to be the Nvidia driver, which causes a problem with GTK.Popup, which is used as tooltips when hovering launchers in the doc since #441.
Adding a big enough delay before showing the tooltip seems to prevent the error (or at least making it very unlikely). I tried 1ms and it seemed to reduces the crashes quite a bit already, but I succeeded with 50ms by increasing the pointer speed, so I set it to 100ms.
This can also have a positive side effect: When rapidly hovering the launchers, every tooltip were briefly shown, but not long enough to be readable. So the delay makes it less distracting a restores the behaviour before #441.
I only added the delay to the. Feel free to rework the PR or close it to implement a cleaner fix. Maybe a proper fix should be added to GTK, but a simple workaround by adding a delay like here would not be acceptable I guess.Launcherclass, and not the parentBaseItem