Hi all,
[Note: please do a reply to all, I've added Heiko so he also has your
feedback]
I would like to have your feedback to help a decision to have standard
tooltips for the dialog's control. Currently there is none.
Issue is:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104413
Discussion during ESC:
+ Tooltips (tdf#104413)
+ have ‘simple’ tooltips for all controls by default?
Additionally to extended tt with help installed
+ pro: support for beginners, good ux, postive a11y side effect
+ con: huge overhead to enter good tips and to translate
+ terrible startup performance problems from XPATH nonsense (?)
+ Markus had a prototype to extract & mirror these tooltips
(Kendy)
+ with plan to keep XHP as help files; consider it again.
+ should we add a tooltip on an individual item ?
+ good usability to have tooltips consistently everywhere
+ student hasn’t finished the help on this topic.
+ happy to add simple tooltips to .ui files (Sophie)
+ adding five word tooltips to everywhere is ok with
translators
+ there are 111k labels on widgets in .ui files (Michael)
$ git ls-files | grep '\.ui' | xargs cat | grep label | grep -v
'gtk-' | nl
+ 500k new words, 100 langs -> 50Mb of extra install
AI: + come up with a clear proposal with input from l10n (Sophie, Heiko)
+ best to apply some common sense wrt. Every control
having a tooltip (Cloph, Sophie)
Heiko as added a document with different proposal here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18u_DcmjyIPS1HzxhLEMu_1teFL-1uGGs_Xjfpg1l4d4/edit?ts=5852ccdc
The proposal is not to put them everywhere, but when it helps the
understanding.
My opinion (but it's mine is that they are very helpful for users and
should be added when UX see them needed (and I trust them on that) even
if it gives us some work on translation and grow the files.
Let me know what you think about it