GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 351333
Tooltip Over Search Icon Needs To Help Users Find Other Options
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:50:45 UTC
Most of the various views now have an icon for Search next to the single line text widget that contains that the user can type in the string. Initial reports are that people are not able to figure out that you can right-mouse click on there for more options. For instance some users want to select "Message Contains" in the mail view. The tooltip to me is breaking UI standards, as it's telling you the current search criteria of that widget instead of telling you what the button is FOR. It should be helping you figure out the UI by putting the mouse over the top. When you do a mouse-over the search icon, it should say "Search: Right-Mouse for more options". Other information:
Created attachment 70946 [details] Shot of tooltip. This is telling you what the widget is set TO, and it should be telling you what the widget is used FOR.
From HIG 2.0 ** Ensure all toolbar controls have tooltips. The tooltip should be more descriptive than the corresponding menu item, if it has one, but still concise. For example, Create new document for the Open toolbar button.
Confirming the bug and reassigning it to Srini.
i'd also like to ask to *always* think of tooltips when implementing anything generally. think of users as users. please make this happen for 2.8, this is at least partially possible if we only use strings that are already part of the translation.
Right. But I want the tooltip to say the current selection also. It would be more helpful when a search is in place (you wont have the greyed text). "Search: Name begins with \n Click here to change the search type" Some thing like this?..... Hmm im not too sure about this... Any suggestions?
at least for 2.8, we can only get in strings that already exactly exist. we could fix the rest for 2.9 i guess. my two cents.
Created attachment 96162 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; This patch also introduces two new localize-able strings, "Search" and "Click here to change the search type".
Commit to head.
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 34309. Also sent mail to gnome-i18n about new strings.