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Bug 140540

Summary:	Display description of actions in the UI
Product:	ide	Reporter:	Ondrej Langr <olangr>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@ide <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrojcek, markiewb
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	PLAN
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	140543
Bug Blocks:

Description Ondrej Langr 2008-07-17 14:53:26 UTC

Currently, there are hundreds of actions in the big IDE (some of which are only executable in context of one project
type) and it is often very difficult to judge what they do from their name, even for experienced users. 

Whenever possible, it would be nice to display description of the action in the status line whenever it is mouse-overed
in the UI (in the main menu, main toolbar, etc..). For disabled actions, providing an information why they are disabled
would be of even more help.