Popover (GUI)

This popover belongs to the status bar of gedit. It contains two checkboxes and a radio button.

A Popover is a container-type graphical control element that hovers over its parent window and blocks any other interaction with until it is selected. It can contain various other graphical control element such as checkboxes, radio buttons or a List box. As any container-type graphical control element it is meant to group elements that belong together and is not meant to be extensive.

Popover graphical control element were introduced in GTK+ 3.12^[1]

References

↑ "Popovers in GTK+". 2014-01-22.

Widgets List of …

Command input	Adjustment handle Button Context menu Drop-down list Hamburger button Menu Pie menu

Data input-output	Checkbox Color picker Combo box Cycle button Date Picker Grid view List box List builder Radio button Scrollbar Search box Slider Spinner Text box

Informational	Balloon help Head-up display in computing Head-up display in video games Icon Infobar Label Loading screen Progress indicator Progress bar Splash screen Throbber Sidebar Status bar Toast Tooltip

Containers	Accordion Disclosure widget Frame/Fieldset Menu bar Menu button Panel Popover Ribbon Tab Toolbar Window

Navigational	Address bar Breadcrumb Hyperlink Navigation bar Pager Tree view

Special windows	About box Alert dialog box Dialog box File dialog Inspector window Modal window Palette window

Related concepts	File viewer List of graphical user interface elements Layout manager Look and feel Mouseover Widget toolkit WIMP

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