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Bug 24021 - Remove tooltips (types) of the items in right column of PS
Summary: Remove tooltips (types) of the items in right column of PS
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Explorer (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jiri Rechtacek
URL:
Keywords: I18N, UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-24 13:59 UTC by Jiri Mzourek
Modified: 2008-12-22 21:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Jiri Mzourek 2002-05-24 13:59:09 UTC
These tooltips are mostly confusing, mainly when
showing IDE internal types and for most of the
users don't have any value.
Comment 1 Marian Mirilovic 2002-05-24 14:13:17 UTC
Jirka, I don't think so. 
I have worked with form long .. long time and know that it's very
useful to know which type of property you are going to edit !

IMHO: It works that way long, long time (from 3.0 I think and nobody
has been report its like issue, but people report if for short time it
didn't work - I don't know number of issue).

So I vote for closing as WONTFIX, or do you have this "new cool
feature" in some UI spec for 3.4 ?
Comment 2 Jiri Mzourek 2002-05-24 14:19:23 UTC
I agree, that's OK for Form editor (component inspector), but probably
just for Form editor.  

In the future, there should be API, which will allows to each node
decide, if the tooltip is displayed or not.

I'm going to open this issue on nbui, keep it still open please.
Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2002-05-24 14:25:51 UTC
Hmm, you are right. 
Maybe it's needless information for properties of some nodes, but I
don't think that "tooltip confuse users".

But I agree with disabling tooltips of some property types (especially
for internal types), but not for all.

Not only Form Editor, Bean Customizer too.
Comment 4 Marian Mirilovic 2002-05-24 14:28:03 UTC
IMHO: tooltips aren't in competition of property editors, reassigne to
openide/explorer
Comment 5 Jesse Glick 2002-05-24 19:17:48 UTC
I think this was fixed a few months ago?

Displaying class names is useless for most properties and an I18N
violation. IMHO the Form Editor can change the Node.Property tooltip
for properties it creates to include the class name, if it wants to
(this requires no API change); the property sheet should never produce
a tooltip for the value half of a property.
Comment 6 Rochelle Raccah 2002-05-24 21:30:26 UTC
I still see it in a dev build from 5/16.
Comment 7 Jiri Rechtacek 2002-06-19 16:01:57 UTC
fixed; class name from tooltip was removed, by discussion (at
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=336335&listName=nbui)
was replace with property value.
Comment 8 Marian Mirilovic 2002-06-27 16:32:51 UTC
verified in [nb_dev](20020627)
Comment 9 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:14:05 UTC
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.