953660 - [Accessibility] add a description attribute on buddies

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Contacts window, defect)

Description

[Romain BEZUT]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2009-08-14 16:46:00 UTC ***

From IRC:
<pvagner> Mic: The main issue is to make the first available item the buddy name.
<pvagner> Mic: and the secondary issue is to make the tooltip text available some other wai.


1) <pvagner> Morian: just cut&pasted the whole <xul:tooltip> element down exactly before the <content> element ends.

2) We should create a "description" attribute on the contact item containing his/her status.


All of this is a temporarily fix, we will have to move the tooltip in blist.xul in the future, probably for 0.3

Comment 1

[Instantbot]

Attachment: patch1

*** Original post on bio 214 as attmnt 198 by pvdeejay AT gmail.com at 2009-08-16 14:39:00 UTC ***

The tooltip is moved in the code as disscussed in the IRC channel. I have not been able to alter the item properties directly so instead I have added additional labels into the item making them invisible. They won't be seen but item's name will be made up of their values.

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2010-01-15 10:34:40 UTC ***

The tooltip code was removed from buddy.xml and moved into a separate binding in This binding was then used to display the same tooltips for conversation tabs as for buddy list items.

The changeset for that change is: https://hg.instantbird.org/instantbird/rev/0c1fbf17d5d4

I'm not sure if there is still something to fix here or not. Maybe we still need to add a key binding to open the tooltip of a selected item.

Comment 3

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2010-05-05 10:31:03 UTC ***

Here someone has posted some advice (in a new bug) how to treat this problem properly.

See bug 953853 (bio 412).

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2011-01-28 14:29:07 UTC ***

Edited the topic to reflect the change mentioned in comment 2.

Comment 5

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2012-03-30 15:17:23 UTC ***

I don't see if there's something to do here and if yes, what it is.
Peter, maybe you can help answer this question?

Comment 6

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 214 at 2012-05-23 15:33:56 UTC ***

I'm closing this bug as incomplete per unanswered comment 5. If there's something to be done, please file a new bug with a clear description what's broken and how we might fix it, I'd say.

Info: contacts and the list of their buddies were handled in bug 953853 (bio 412) if that's related to the problem that was initially reported here.