Bug 2094

Summary: [Tasks] Tooltip on tasks should be placed in a better position. (1GE7843)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4 Keywords: investigate, usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Kevin Haaland CLA 2001-10-10 22:26:20 EDT 
In the resource perspective with the task list in the right bottom corner.
	Create a new task with a long description (the compiler error are like that).
	Stop the mouse over the task descriptor.
	The tooltip will open showing the description because it does not fit in the table column
	but the tooltip will be show the whole description because it does not fit in the screen.

	It should either
		use more then one line,
		open more to the left so the description would not be cut by de screen size.

	The same problem happens with the editor title if the file name is too big.
		
	

NOTES:
Comment 1 Stephane Bailliez CLA 2001-11-11 08:41:25 EST 
I second this.

Same thing about CVS history. If you have a long description, you will never be 
able to see it. Tooltip does not seems to support EOL as well since the dreaded 
black square is displayed.

I'm not sure about the strategy to use here. We cannot rely on the data to have 
a reasonable line length so there might be a need to justify the text to a max-
tooltip width and have a max tooltip height as well and being able to scroll 
the tooltip. That might be needed for Javadoc as well, right now long javadoc 
is purely and simply cut.
Comment 2 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-01-21 20:33:13 EST 
Support for F1 on task list items is being added. The line limit is a widget 
limitation. There are no plans to change the widget that the task list uses in 
the upcoming release.
Comment 3 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-07 15:35:16 EDT 
Reopen for investigation
Comment 4 Kevin Haaland CLA 2004-03-25 17:48:31 EST 
Not fixing