GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638571
Simplify button's tooltip is not useful
Last modified: 2011-10-01 10:04:41 UTC
This report was originally filled at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/693318 1) Go to The 'Now Playing' screen by clicking on the first item ('Now Playing') in the sidebar. 2) In the toolbar, hover over the 'Simplify' button. The tooltip (en_GB) given is: "Simplify the Now Playing Interface by hiding the source list and more" This tooltip is not effective as it repeats the text in the button - not needed, and give a vague description of the changes. It should instead be replaced by something more informative and precise, such as: "Hide the source list, main menu, status bar and currently playing information." ps:original reporter is using 1.9.0 series but is still reproducible under 1.9.1 too.
Created attachment 180841 [details] [review] Patch that fixes the issue Attached is a patch (against latest git) which fixes the issue, it changes the tooltip to: "Hide the source list, menu bar, status bar and currently playing media information." This provides a lot more detail, to exactly what the button does (AFAIK the purpose of a tooltip).
Comment on attachment 180841 [details] [review] Patch that fixes the issue "currently playing media information" might be confusing, since we don't hide the information displayed inside Now Playing itself. Maybe replace that with "toolbar"?
Created attachment 196175 [details] [review] Updated patch on suggestion Updated patch inline with suggestion
Created attachment 196177 [details] [review] Updated patch on suggestion Updated again to make tooltip better for when simplify is already selected. "Hide/Show"
Review of attachment 196177 [details] [review]: Thanks for the patch. "tool, and status bars" should probably be "toolbar and status bar". We are currently in string freeze for the 2.2 release on September 21st, so I'm marking this to be committed after the release, with the above change.
Comment on attachment 196177 [details] [review] Updated patch on suggestion Committed with the changes described in my previous comment
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.