#294 closed defect (discarded)
add tooltips to gui elements
| Reported by: | aboeckma | Owned by: | devel |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Usability | Version: | gtkport |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Buttons in modern UIs should have tool tips
Change History (9)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by epruesse
- Priority changed from major to normal
- Summary changed from Tooltips are missing on every button to add tooltips to gui elements
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by epruesse
- Component changed from Library (GUI) to Usability
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by epruesse
- Milestone set to arb6
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by westram
- Milestone changed from arb6 to arb7
comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by westram
comment:6 follow-up: ↓ 7 Changed 11 years ago by epruesse
We'd have to parse the file when creating the widget, though, which would at least for NT mean a lot of file opens. Not sure that's ideal. Also, there are places were we might want to have more tooltips than help-files. Think radio buttons.
comment:7 in reply to: ↑ 6 Changed 11 years ago by westram
Replying to epruesse:
We'd have to parse the file when creating the widget, though, which would at least for NT mean a lot of file opens. Not sure that's ideal.
We could create one file (containing that information) while generating the arb help.
Also, there are places were we might want to have more tooltips than help-files. Think radio buttons.
Yes.. agree. Explicit tooltips could be
- passed to create_button() and insert_option() etc. or
- set using sth like 'at→set_tooltip("Click here to start the calculation")'
If none defined, fallback from help would be used.
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by westram
- Resolution set to discarded
- Status changed from new to closed
gtk-port is dead
comment:9 Changed 8 years ago by westram
- Milestone arb7 deleted
remove gtkport tickets from milestones
One possible solution to quickly produce content all over ARB could be to extract tooltip content from associated helpfiles:
We could introduce a new "standard" helpfile section "SUMMARY" which may contain one sentence of limited length. Tooltips either display that section (or simply display the title if the section is missing).