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Bug 659209 - Activities/Applications: Add tooltip when hovering over icons
Activities/Applications: Add tooltip when hovering over icons
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 627781
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-16 02:35 UTC by Frode Petersen
Modified: 2011-09-16 03:24 UTC
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Description Frode Petersen 2011-09-16 02:35:45 UTC 
A lot of applications have names that are somewhat cryptic so it's not always clear what they do. This is not a problem if you have installed only the apps you know, but often the list of apps is quite big.

The .desktop files in /usr/share/applications have a comment field. I suggest that this comment is displayed as a tooltip when hovering over an icon on the Activities/Applications screen for more than a second or two.
Comment 1 Rui Matos 2011-09-16 03:24:56 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627781#c7.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 627781 ***