[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 141867] Explain "Type" and "Insert Reference To" elements with tooltips

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141867

--- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #4)
> In general, I find it disturbing when tooltips pop up in any place of the
> UI.

But aren't you the "odd person out" about this point?? I mean, they shouldn't
pop up immediately, but tooltips are widely used in LO

> It's well known for example in toolbars. Especially I didn't like
> tooltips in lists where the tooltip pops up during moving the mouse of the
> list items automatically and then the tooltip itself covers other list items
> so that they are not visible anymore. Then you have to move away the mouse
> to have an full overview again ...

I'd say that's more about tooltip delay and behavior on movement than its very
existence.

> 
> The "Type" list should be self-explanatory in my opinion. Is it really
> necessary to have tooltips here? I doubt.

It _should_, but it isn't; and even if we rephrased it as I suggest it would
still be somewhat cryptic. I'm suggesting we compensate for that somewhat.


> The "Insert reference to" list is different. Here I support a better
> description as it's not really well classifiable. (What's the difference of
> Number, Number (no context) and Number (full context)? Why is the most
> important list item "Reference" not on top of the list and why is it called
> so? etc.)

So, my rename bug 141869 indeed touches on those issues, but same point -
accesible explanation is called for IMHO.

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