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  1. Qt Creator
  2. QTCREATORBUG-29085

Add tooltips for all interactive UI controls

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      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?
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      • 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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              leenam Leena Miettinen
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              Kimmo Leppälä Kimmo Leppälä
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