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force tooltips in Maya

you can also enable tool tips in Maya’s preferences
to set tooltips visible in Maya by code:

TODO this needs updating to get action->menu->child actions… recursive

#print(menu_bar.children())
for action in menu_bar.actions() :1
    #print(action)
    #print(action.menu())
    action.setToolTipsVisible(True)

shared to https://groups.google.com/g/python_inside_maya/c/IcMpXXmDnSM
and https://discourse.techart.online/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-tooltips-for-maya-menitem/15385/12