[vlc-devel] [PATCH] fix poor UX with checkbox group tooltips (qt prefs)

[Lyndon Brown]

I think it already does.

It's more than a year since I made this patch, so I can't recall the
details perfectly, but the last comment in the commit log suggests so.

Opening up the preferences, advanced mode, and going to Interface-
>'Control Interfaces' gives an example of a control I think this
affects. With the fix applied, hovering over the textbox at the bottom,
the tooltip still shows, which I think my commit log comment was
referring to as being unaffected, and I think might have been your
concern.


On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 09:59 +0200, Pierre Lamot wrote:
> Hi, maybe you can keep it on the text input
> 
> On 2020-09-17 20:53, Lyndon Brown wrote:
> > from commit log:
> > -----------------
> > 
> > qt: remove general tooltop on module checkbox group
> > 
> > With module selection controls which feature a groupbox of module
> > checkboxes, if individual modules have their own longtext, that is
> > displayed in a tooltip when hovering on them; for all others, the
> > help
> > text for the entire control (groupbox) gets displayed, which is
> > just
> > confusing from a UX point of view.
> > 
> > This removes the general groupbox tooltip, thus fixing this.
> > 
> > It remains for the textbox portion of the control however, so
> > hovering
> > over that still provides the helptext!
> > 
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