589344 - Add tooltip to utilities button

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

The utilities button has no tooltip. But it needs one!

Wording for Windows: "Options for all add-ons"
Wording for OSX and Linux: "Preferences for all add-ons"

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

David might as well do this at the same time as bug 589343, unless you've already done something here Blair?

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> unless you've already done something here Blair?

I have not. It's all ddahl's now.

Comment 4

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Attachment: Patch0

not sure if the entities are in the right place in .dtd file

Comment 5

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Attachment: Patch0

Let's hope this is the right one, 3 stringy patches in addons all at once is hard to keep track of and i am ding this on windows. calgon take me away!

Comment 6

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Comment on attachment 469286 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch0

These entities should have the same naming conventions as in bug 589343 - view.utilitiesUnix.tooltip, or something.

Comment 7

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Attachment: Patch01

Comment 8

[David Dahl :ddahl]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f8d5ca6e16d9

Comment 9

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

If my assumption about the Utilities button being the one with the cogwheel is correct, I don't think this button should actually be called options or preferences. It's popup menu only has one preference and three action items. May I suggest to come up with better naming for it?

Comment 10

[u88484]

Verified fixed
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Firefox/4.0b5pre

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Do we have or want an automated test for? Or is a manual test necessary?

Comment 12

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Do we have or want an automated test for? Or is a manual test necessary?

Its only a tooltip - no test needed, IMO.


(In reply to comment #9)
> If my assumption about the Utilities button being the one with the cogwheel is
> correct, I don't think this button should actually be called options or
> preferences. It's popup menu only has one preference and three action items.
> May I suggest to come up with better naming for it?

Believe it or not, we did actually spend a decent amount of time trying to figure out the wording for this. Unfortunately, there's no good standard wording for a list of miscellaneous items (although "tools" is sometimes used, it isn't very effective). "Preferences" is at least somewhat consistent with other usage in Toolkit and Firefox (and "Options" for Windows, since that's what is used there).

Open to suggestions though - but such a wording change needs to be done before Beta 6 (before 10th September). That's best done in a new bug, I think.

Comment 13

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Open to suggestions though - but such a wording change needs to be done before
> Beta 6 (before 10th September). That's best done in a new bug, I think.

OK, I filed bug 591876.