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Display tooltip title of statusnotifier items as plaintext

Frédéric Brière requested to merge (removed):fix/sni-tooltip-title-text into master

According to the StatusNotifierItem specification¹², only the tooltip subtitle may contain markup, not the title. The latter must therefore either be escaped before gtk_tooltip_set_markup(), or set with gtk_tooltip_set_text() instead.

Note that KDE Plasma also made this modification³, and while this did break some applications⁴ (many of which have been fixed by now), the final decision was to stick to the specification. Consequently, systray should also be able to display a title such as "<Rock&Roll>" without choking.

¹ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/StatusNotifierItem/ ² https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/Markup/ ³ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/6 ⁴ https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422616

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