Useless ToolTips in the property Inspector

[Alex Tweedly]

Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> I see, but even in such
>
>>   Lock Text   and tooltip is    lockText
>>    
>>
>
>Tooltip show tell me WHAT this option do.
>
>Assume I do not know that is Lock Text (and I do not know now :-)
>So tooltip do not help me.
>  
>
I can certainly see your argument - but I personally prefer the brief 
reminders such as "Tab on Return" - that reminds me what it does; I 
would find the long-winded (or maybe I should say "more informative") 
style a bit cumbersome. Given that I have a good idea what most of these 
do, short reminders are better for me than a (bound to fail) attempt to 
provide full documentation in an over-constrained space; for the ones I 
don't already know, I *should* read the full page of documentation (or 
have the chance to read it).

You can look up the property name in the Documentation (which is not 
true of the brief description - so it's useful to have both description 
and propertyName available). Clearly, it would be quite easy to take the 
summary description out of the propertyName's documentation and use it 
for the tooltip - so this would be a great enhancement suggestion. I 
think your version would be better for most people - who don't approach 
documentation in the same way I do.

If you haven't yet used Bugzilla, I'd suggest you enter this suggestion 
as an enhancement request.


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