Gwibber

Icons revealed when hovering over an update do not have an explanatory tooltip

Bug #577486 reported by Sam L. on 2010-05-08

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gwibber	Fix Released	Wishlist	Unassigned	Gwibber 2.31.90
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Ken VanDine

Bug Description

Unless I am mistaken the icons that appear when hovering the mouse over a update from a social site do not have tooltips to explain their purpose. This is a bit confusing.

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lp:~bhargav/gwibber/bhargav-sandbox (Merged)

lp:gwibber

lp:ubuntu/maverick/gwibber

lp:~webapps/+junk/gwibber-opensesame-packaging

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-05-08:

Thanks for the bug report can you please elaborate a bit. Which app is causing the problem? can you please attach a screenshot

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Sam L. (somethinginteres) wrote on 2010-05-09:

screenshot-1.jpg Edit (1.2 KiB, image/jpeg)

My apologies, I'm referring to the Gwibber Social Client when a user hovers over an update in the stream the icons that appear on the right hand side do not have a tooltip. Screenshot attached.

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-05-09

affects:	hundredpapercuts → gwibber
Changed in gwibber:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Incomplete → New
description:	updated

Vish (vish) on 2010-05-18

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

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Bhargav Mangipudi (bhargav) wrote on 2010-06-02:

Its probably just adding a "title" attribute to the <img> tags displaying the icons. I will do it .

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Bhargav Mangipudi (bhargav)
assignee:	Bhargav Mangipudi (bhargav) → nobody

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Bhargav Mangipudi (bhargav) wrote on 2010-06-02:

Added "title" attribute to the "img" tags displaying the icons revealed on hovering over an update. Edit (785 bytes, text/plain)

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Sam L. (somethinginteres) wrote on 2010-06-03:

Excuse the ignorance but how does the patch you supply make it to end-users? I see a lot of bugs saying "branch exists" but the fix does not appear in the update manager. Will we see this fix in the update manager sometime soon or is that just not the way things work?

Thanks for fixing the problem.

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Jani Uusitalo (uusijani) wrote on 2010-06-21:

I would go further than the original report and say that the icons are pretty useless in themselves: an envelope with an arrow does... what? Email the status to somebody? And a set of gears... huh? Icons ought to be as self-evident as possible, and having to hover over them to see the tooltips to understand their meaning is a failure in the icons' design IMO.

With most statuses being quite limited in length, there's plenty of screen real estate available, so why not just use text indicators for each of the icon's functions, such as 'Reply' and 'More...'?

(Hope I'm not making this sound too brash, I think Gwibber is an excellent tool and this is a minor annoyance.)

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2010-08-12

tags:

added: patch patch-forwarded-upstream

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2010-08-12

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in gwibber:
status:	New → Fix Committed
milestone:	none → 2.31.90

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-08-12:

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.31.5-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.31.5-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Added tooltips for Menu and Reply (LP: #577486)
    - Handle messages that might have missing sender data
    - Added Messages interface to com.Gwibber.Streams
    - Added Start method to com.Gwibber.Service
-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:02:28 -0400