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Summary: | Tooltips should explain icon badges | ||
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Product: | platform | Reporter: | jrojcek <jrojcek> |
Component: | Window System | Assignee: | David Simonek <dsimonek> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | mmirilovic, t_h |
Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | UI, UMBRELLA |
Version: | 5.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
jrojcek
2005-12-02 08:53:37 UTC
I see this is filed as a javacvs bug, but I'm thinking this is a generic issue for all of NetBeans. I've heard people new to NetBeans wonder what the "%" icon on files are (I -think- it means "needs compilation" or something like that). If possible, we should consider modifying the generic icon badging and/or node tooltip code such that all badges on icons get descriptions (perhaps on the line below the current tooltip - multiline tooltips are pretty easy now as of JDK1.4) I also think this is not matter of javacvs module, badging should be explained in tooltips for any badged icon in IDE. But I don't know what should be the right component/subcomponent for such RFE. BTW: really good idea :-) Okay, moving to openide. This is indeed a generic tooltip issue. Should work for "complilation" badges on java file nodes, for "broken reference" badges on project nodes, and CVS badges as well. For the future we're thinking about "java error" badges in project explorer indicating errors in java files. All those badges should be explained in tooltips. Janko, it would be better file separate issues against appropriate modules. I leave this issue as the umbrella, but I don't think openide is only one involved module. Marian, I think that first openide must provide multiline icon-capable tooltips and then other modules can use them. Implemented by t_h, closing. |