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Bug 105698

Summary: [Markers] Problem description does not appear in tooltip for icon in Problem view
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Noel Bush <noel>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Hitesh <hsoliwal>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 CC: billy.biggs, daniel_megert, gunnar, remy.suen
Version: 3.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
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Description Noel Bush CLA 2005-08-01 13:51:11 EDT 
I am told, by users of Eclipse on Windows, that when you hold the cursor over
the icon in the leftmost column of a row in the Problem view, you get the text
of the problem in a tooltip.  This is really essential in some situations, where
the problem text is long, and there's no other way of viewing it.  (It is
totally useless to open the properties box, as the text is in a single-line
field and is just as unreadable that way as truncated in a column.)

But it doesn't work for me, at least not on Fedora Core 3 with Eclipse 3.1. 
This is becoming a MAJOR sore point for me right now, as I am using oXygen XML,
which has very informative error messages, but at the moment the only way I can
see those error messages is to 1) open the Properties window and 2) copy the
text from the description field and 3) paste it somewhere else.  That's not fun!
Comment 1 Billy Biggs CLA 2005-08-01 14:02:54 EDT 
The GTK+ GtkTreeView widget does not yet support tooltips.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80980

Maybe the properties window could do word wrapping?
Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2005-08-02 14:48:20 EDT 
Who added the dependency to Eclipse Bugzilla 80980? It's not related to this one
because 80980 is in the Gnome Bugzilla.
Comment 3 Billy Biggs CLA 2005-08-02 14:58:56 EDT 
Heh, Tod you should read the links more carefully. :)
Comment 4 Remy Suen CLA 2007-08-30 20:25:34 EDT 
That GTK+ bug's fixed now, supposedly.
Comment 5 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-15 12:16:30 EDT 
"As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009"
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2010-01-06 03:41:19 EST 
Sorry but this is how Linux deals with this and is a problem in all Tables and Trees in Linux, see bug 242031 (esp. comment2).

You have several choices:
- make the view/column wider
- select the problem which will reveal the description in the status line
- talk to the Linux guys to offer better support in their Table and Tree
- switch the OS ;-)
Comment 7 Hitesh CLA 2010-01-06 04:08:37 EST 
Thanks Dani for a pointer to that bug.