GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 122408
`Numeric 9' tooltip on button labeled `9' is useless
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I may be missing something, but `Numeric 9' tooltip on button labeled `9' is useless: it obscures surrounding buttons, and it does not clarify anything, because if you can't tell what the `9' on the button label, you won't be able to tell what the 9 in the tooltip is... (recursive tooltips?)
You raise a good point. I've cc:'ed Breda, the gcalctool doc. person on this. Obviously "Numeric [0-9]" are all in this category. I can see that we did this so that every button has a tooltip, but are these ten tooltips giving us anything useful?
I am not an expert on UI design, but I think you can safely omit these ten tooltips :)
Well, I've just added a UI guy to the CC list, so let's ask him. ;-) Calum, any reason why we can't just remove the ten "Numeric <x>" tooltips as they are redundant?
Actually, and IMHO the tooltips on most of the buttons are rather obstrusive... They obscure quite a few of the other buttons. Calculators do not have tooltips, they have manuals, and gcalctool looks pretty complete. Maybe gcatctool could drop all the tooltips and add a `What is this?' button changing the cursor to a question mark, etc... I don't know how would the HIG feel about that.
I just talked with Calum on IRC on this. The fix will be to remove the tooltips for the numbers 0-9. The rest stay. In some cases they are very much needed (the financial buttons for example). The Windows "What's This" approach unfortunately won't work as GNOME uses tooltips instead. Look for a checkin later today. Thanks.
Changes checked into CVS HEAD. Fixed in v4.3.8.