1856495 - Add tooltip on hover over From in mailbox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Chas Belov]

Steps to reproduce:

In Thunderbird 115.3.1:

1. View a list of mail items in which some of the subjects and froms are ellipsed (...) due to not fitting within the column width.
2. Hover over an ellipsed subject.
3. Hover over an ellipsed from name.

Actual results:

2. Tooltip appears containing the same subject with the same ellipsis.
3. No tool tip appears.

Expected results:

2. Tooltip appears containing the same subject, but the whole subject is part of the tooltip, not just the part that is already displayed in the mail list as ellipsed.
3. Tooltip appears containing the same from content, but the whole from content is part of the tooltip, not just the part that is already displayed in the mail list as ellipsed.

Comment 1

[Chas Belov]

It appears I was mistaken about step 2. I am now getting the full subject in the tooltip on hover.
Still not getting a corresponding tooltip for step 3.

Comment 2

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Confirming. Only subject columns will show tooltips on hover.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/671ab728c473ed765933096b4a19b47f7b24f1c9/mail/base/content/about3Pane.js#6287
I guess we should add this for senderLine as well.

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Why is "Cards view" added to the subject? I'm suffered from this problem with Classic view.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Ah, yes in the classic view it's missing for both subject, from, and some others I guess.

Comment 6

[Vineet Deo]

Confirmed, can take this, thanks.(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #5)

Ah, yes in the classic view it's missing for both subject, from, and some others I guess.

Comment 7

[Vineet Deo]

Attachment: Bug 1856495 - Add tooltip on sender and date on thread view, and sender on cards view. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

How To Test

• Open Cards View
• Shrink the thread pane until there are ellipses for the sender
• Hover over and see if tooltip shows full sender name
• Open Table view
• Shrink sender column and date column until there are ellipses
• Hover over each column to check for tooltip containing full sender name and full date

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Planning a separate patch for the table view?

Comment 9

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #8)

Planning a separate patch for the table view?

The patch also tackles the table view, but right now we have a string conflict with fluent aria-labels and titles.
Tracking in bug 1861204.

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/92a7f776bac2
Add tooltip on sender and date on thread view, and sender on cards view. r=freaktechnik