457589 - Display tooltips for bookmark folders (in the Bookmark Bar), too

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

Description

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Attachment: Implement tooltips for bookmark folders

Currently, tooltips with title and URL of a bookmark in the bookmark bar are only displayed for single bookmarks. It would be nice with tooltips for bookmark folders too, displaying all the containing URLs.

Here's a work in progress for a patch which implements tooltips for bookmark folders.

Seems like the child array for a bookmark folder/group is not set up immediately when created. If you bookmark some open tabs as a new bookmark group, it will display a tooltip of:

"title
--

"

In other words an empty row instead of the children URLs. Closing the window and opening a new one will then display a correct tooltip. I will investigate this behaviour further.

Similarily, creating a new empty bookmark folder will display an empty title even though its title is clearly "New Folder".

Any comments and suggestions for this patch are welcome.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

I can see an argument for displaying a tooltip on each menu item in the bookmark folder's menu, and maybe some kind of information for groups, but showing all children in the tooltip for a folder doesn't make sense to me.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm with Stuart, mostly. It would be possible to end up with really nasty full-screen tooltips if people had large folders in the bookmarks bar, which I'm sure some of our users do, so we'd definitely want to put some sort of limits on their size (if we don't already).

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Comment 3

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

Possibly a count for folders/tab groups?

Comment 4

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

At the same time, it is sort of annoying having to click and hold down for half a second on a tab group to have a quick glance at its contents. Something similar to the bookmark tooltips are needed for folders/groups too, in my opinion, but I can see the problem with large sets of children.

Maybe something like showing the ten first URLs, and then "(and 42 more)" as the last row of the tooltip?

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #4)
> At the same time, it is sort of annoying having to click and hold down for half
> a second on a tab group to have a quick glance at its contents.

It takes about 3 seconds to get a tooltip, so how is that an improvement?

Comment 6

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

There is currently no way at all to view the URLs of bookmarks in a folder/group, except opening up the manager or the bookmark inspector.

Also, it is actually not the amount of seconds that bugs me, but having to click. It happens a lot that I forget to click and hold, and just click, opening up a bunch of new tabs, replacing the current ones.

Comment 7

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

(Which is probably because click and hold is quite uncommon these days, single click suffices for opening any other menu, and that is probably why I accidentally click folder groups.)

Comment 8

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Anyone?

Comment 9

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Some kind of decision on this (with comment 4 being the most recent suggestion) would be helpful before I continue with this patch.

Comment 10

[Stuart Morgan]

I'm not really wild about comment 4 either; that's still potentially a *really* long tooltip depending no the URLs, and showing only 10 feels arbitrary.

Comment 11

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

Stuart, do you have any other suggestions for solving this inconvenience? Or is it just a wontfix?