GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322349
Missing tooltips in various places
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:10:01 UTC
Version details: mono 1.1.10 Distribution/Version: Debian/Unstable Tooltips on various places would be nice. The 'Abort' button in find is pretty obvious but buttons like the '+' in the bottom left gives no hint to its application. Perhaps a small hint that it adds something, but you have to push it to see what happens. There are probably more buttons that need tooltips.
The + button in the bottom-left simply needs to be removed, but you're definitely right that many other widgets could benefit from them. The two zoom icons (zoom in, zoom out) in the bottom-right could use tooltips, as well as being made to be clickable (I've seen several friends try to click them). Tooltips for the small tag icons that appear in the Find bar and at the bottom of photos (in both Browse and Edit modes) would be good to, IMO. The tag icon in the Edit Tag dialog should have a tooltip indiciating that clicking it allows the user to change it. Lastly, I think tooltips for in the timeline histogram would be good to show what month/year the user is hovering over.
Created attachment 55544 [details] [review] tooltips for some elements of UI in f-spot.glade Patch against current CVS, adds tooltips to '+' button in corner of main view, most of 'export to folder' dialog and tooltip on image temperature in image correction dialog.
some of these are in now, are all of them?
All toolbar buttons and many others have had tooltips added. Regarding Pasi's patch, what do you think Larry? The HIG doesn't seem to talk about tooltips except in the context of toolbars and menus, and the use of tooltips over other widgets in other applications seems limited.
Also, tooltips for the small tag icons that appear beneath photos are not in place yet. They're trickier to do since the icons are rendered onto a drawable and aren't their own widget, so a tooltip would appear when the user moused over any part of the photo, which isn't what we want.
Are we missing some obvious tooltips now?
Comment on attachment 55544 [details] [review] tooltips for some elements of UI in f-spot.glade Maintenance update: In the past we've been less than stellar in reviewing patches. As such we have a pile of patches in bugzilla which are outdated and don't apply anymore. Am currently marking all of these as "needs-work". My apologies for this. Since I've become a maintainer of the project, I've set the personal rule of quickly reviewing all patches, to avoid that this happens again. If you (or anyone) wants to go through the trouble of updating this patch, please talk to us to figure out if it fits in the F-Spot long term roadmap. Should you, in the future, notice a patch lingering around for too long, please notify us immediately and we'll look into it, to avoid situations like these from happening again. You can filter these mails by searching for ###F-OLDPATCHCLEANUP###
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