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Bug 340342 - [Contributions] Tooltips for command
Summary: [Contributions] Tooltips for command
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.7 M7   Edit
Assignee: Prakash Rangaraj CLA
QA Contact: Paul Webster CLA
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Blocks: 440095
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Reported: 2011-03-17 12:06 EDT by David Pérez CLA
Modified: 2014-07-23 06:11 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Diff respect to the head version of org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/menus (797 bytes, text/plain)
2011-03-22 08:19 EDT, David Pérez CLA 		pwebster: iplog+
Details
Patch v02 (1.26 KB, patch)
2011-03-23 03:36 EDT, Prakash Rangaraj CLA 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description David Pérez CLA 2011-03-17 12:06:32 EDT 
The tooltip of a command contribution in a toolbar should be description (longer) instead of the name (normally short), if the first one is available.
In this way, the user will have more detailed information.

The name of a command is more useful for menu items, where the space is more limited.

I attach the patched version.
I have modified from version 1.60 in the source repository.

Additional information in this thread:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=205104&start=0&S=ce33b644d22b52255ed013cedf29262d
Comment 1 Paul Webster CLA 2011-03-18 08:15:22 EDT 
Hi David,

It looks like the patch didn't  make it.
PW
Comment 2 David Pérez CLA 2011-03-22 08:19:04 EDT 
Created attachment 191669 [details]
Diff respect to the head version of org.eclipse.ui.workbench/Eclipse UI/org/eclipse/ui/menus
Comment 3 David Pérez CLA 2011-03-22 08:19:31 EDT 
I hope now my patch (diff file) is ok.
Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-03-23 03:36:37 EDT 
Created attachment 191728 [details]
Patch v02

A slightly modified version of the actual diff
Comment 5 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-03-23 03:46:52 EDT 
Patch v02 released to HEAD
Comment 6 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2011-04-26 10:24:37 EDT 
Verified in I20110425-1800
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2012-08-20 07:30:44 EDT 
Tool tips are somewhere in the middle of the name/label and the description. A description can be very long, even consist of multiple sentences. Also, tool tips must be in headline style and not sentence style:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/User_Interface_Guidelines#Capitalization

Like we introduced a away to specify command images, we should also have a mechanism to show tool tips, and by default show the name. Filed bug 387583 to track that.