Details
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Task
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Resolution: Unresolved
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P2: Important
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Qt Creator 11.0.0-beta1
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None
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e5e2d47d6 (11.0)
Description
Add tooltips to the UI
- Where:
- For all interactive UI controls (buttons, fields, radio buttons, check boxes)
- Especially important: Preferences pages and icons
- Who:
- Developers for each plugin/area (add Leena as reviewer)
- Who will handle less actively maintained and/or contributed plugins?
- It would be good to have more detailed guidelines for writing tooltips: https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator-extending/qtcreator-ui-text.html#writing-tooltips
- Start with a verb phrase (for an action, such as most check boxes and radio buttons and menu items) or the description of the thing (for a thing, such as Name)
- Describe what the control does, not how to use it (if you have to do that, the design is bad and you're most likely using the wrong type of control)
- While we're at it, it would be good to check that the current tooltips are valid and up-to-date
- We could start enforcing tooltips for all new interactive UI controls
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# | Subject | Branch | Project | Status | CR | V |
487524,4 | Doc: Add guidelines for writing tooltips | 11.0 | qt-creator/qt-creator | Status: MERGED | +2 | 0 |