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The tooltip of the Name column in all debugger views displays just the column's display name. It should display a dedicated column description instead. This is a regression (it was displayed in NB 6.1 - see http://xdesign-tools.czech.sun.com/projects/ss/NB6.1_review/index.php#i25) and it's probably caused by transition to Outline.
Outline does not have a way to set the short description for the tree column. See issue #191995.
Fixed in changeset: 182690:d953a6e26d75 http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/d953a6e26d75
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201011190001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/d953a6e26d75 User: mentlicher@netbeans.org Log: #191991 Define short description (tooltip) for the nodes column.
Verified in build 6442 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 32-bit. In 6.9.1 I see e.g. for "Name", tooltip "Name"; in build 6442 I see "Name of the variable".