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Bug 122408 - `Numeric 9' tooltip on button labeled `9' is useless
`Numeric 9' tooltip on button labeled `9' is useless
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-calculator
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rich Burridge
Rich Burridge
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-16 04:53 UTC by Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2003-09-16 04:53:17 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?)
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2003-09-16 14:24:49 UTC
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?
Comment 2 Breda McColgan 2003-09-16 16:00:35 UTC
I am not an expert on UI design, but I think you can safely omit these
ten tooltips :)
Comment 3 Rich Burridge 2003-09-16 18:18:11 UTC
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?

    
Comment 4 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2003-09-16 19:23:10 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Rich Burridge 2003-09-17 14:59:04 UTC
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.
Comment 6 Rich Burridge 2003-09-17 18:23:42 UTC
Changes checked into CVS HEAD. Fixed in v4.3.8.