Closed
Bug 410043
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Tooltips with long text don't stay up long enough
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)
SeaMonkey
UI Design
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 395668
People
(Reporter: tonymec, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122702 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122702 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre Tooltips in SeaMonkey always stay up for about 5 seconds, regardless of the length of the text. This isn't long enough if the text is long, as is often the case with Bugzilla links to bugs with long summaries Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hover your mouse over the following link: bug 79130 (any link with a long tooltip will do) Actual Results: Tooltip stays up for about 5 seconds Expected Results: Tooltip should stay up long enough to be read Additional info: see bug 45375 comment #137 I see two approaches for fixing this bug: (a) Make the tooltip display time a function of its text length, maybe a linear function t = a + b*l where a and b are constants and l is the length; (b) Make the tooltip display time user-settable via about:config. --- Both approaches are not necessarily exclusive: there could even be two prefs, maybe browser.tooltip.latency (or something), current value 5 (seconds) or 5000 (milliseconds); and browser.tooltip.timeRatio (or something), current value zero (milliseconds per byte).
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Updated•17 years ago
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Version: unspecified → Trunk
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Comment 1•17 years ago
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Adding David E Ross to CC list because I believe he would be interested.
Comment 3•17 years ago
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This was originally proposed in bug 45375 but not implemented. See the comments in that bug report starting with 137. Note that a number of the subsequent comments there also requested longer display times for longer tooltips. This is still a good idea. However, for user orientation, I would make the parameters seconds and not milliseconds. That would change the formula to something like t = a + b*l/5, the 5 being the convention in typing tests (many, many years ago) that, on average, one word equals 5 characters. Then the a is still latency. and the b is seconds per word. Since we can often read well more than 60 words per minute, it might even be t = a + b*l/50, in which case b would be seconds per 10 words. In any case, for the general users, I would avoid milliseconds.
Comment 4•17 years ago
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Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".
Assignee: guifeatures → nobody
QA Contact: guifeatures
Comment 5•16 years ago
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I heard from someone that Firefox 3.6a1pre keeps showing the tooltip for infinite time until mouse is removed. Should be checked out.
Comment 8•14 years ago
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Fixed in Core by Bug 395668
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Updated•14 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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