1820339 - Today pane's view toggle buttons [<] [>] need tooltips

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, defect)

Description

[Kevin Cox [@kevincox:matrix.org]]

Steps to reproduce:

Opened thunderbird.

Actual results:

The "Today Pane" has a title of "Events and Tasks" and shows my tasks. There is no option to disable the tasks view (even though none of my calendars have tasks enabled)

Expected results:

There is an option to customize the Today Pane so that I don't have tasks visible if I don't want to.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot 1: Events-only view of Today Pane

(In reply to Kevin Cox [@kevincox:matrix.org] from comment #0)

Expected results:
There is an option to customize the Today Pane so that I don't have tasks visible if I don't want to.

Good news, Kevin, Thunderbird already has that option, and it's just a click away:

• Use the < and > buttons right next to the Events & Tasks title to toggle between different views.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot 2: The toggle buttons

Here's the toggle buttons:
Tasks > Events > Events & Tasks

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

That said, those buttons should really have a tooltip to make their function explicit.
I think the most straightforward and most useful solution would be dynamic tooltips:

• Show tasks only
• Show events only
• Show events and tasks

Whenever the view changes, the button tooltips must be updated according to what they will actually show.
Tentatively marking as good-first-bug. I hope we know which mode we're in, and the rest should be pretty straight forward with Fluent, separate messages which we set in code for the buttons upon changing the mode.

document.l10n.setAttributes(element, "a-mode-message-id");
https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/wiki/Good-Practices-for-Developers#prefer-separate-messages-over-variants-for-ui-logic