315340 - show inline tooltip for fields that don't fit instead of dropped location as tooltip

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051101 Camino/1.0+

steps:
1. bookmarks>show all bookmarks
2. if you don't have a bookmark whose title is too long for the column, either make the column narrow or make a bookmark with a longer title
3. click on your long bookmark and hover over the cropped title

expected results:
inline tooltip of title

actual results:
drop tooltip of location

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Per the meeting, we're going to do inline tooltips for the truncated fields (like in the Finder's list view).

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This, like bug 370977, looks like it's mostly fixed in trunk on 10.5. I see inline tooltips of whatever's under the cursor in both bookmarks and history.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

See also bug 458259 about how Cocoa's (inline) tooltips are inferior.