Bug 471736 - Tool tips for Project Explorer
Summary: Tool tips for Project Explorer
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2015-07-02 14:51 EDT by Art Bergquist CLA
Modified: 2015-07-15 07:37 EDT (History)
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Description Art Bergquist CLA 2015-07-02 14:51:39 EDT 
It would be great to have a reminder of what certain icons mean in Eclipse's Project Explorer (one way to do this would be to, upon hovering mouse over an icon, display a tool tip that would display information found, for example, at http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/ref-icons.htm).

In reviewing 'Window | Preferences', could the above be implemented as an additional checkbox in 'General | Appearance | Label Decorations'?  This would entail "expanding" the current definition of label decorations (viz., "Decorators give you more information about an item, at the expense of visual clutter.")

Or would it need to be a separate entry because the enhancement is for a tool tip (not a label decoration which also visual adds text)?

TIA,

Art Bergquist

-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 4.4.1.20140925-1820 (org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.jdt 3.10.0.v20140925-0400
Comment 1 Stephan Herrmann CLA 2015-07-02 17:29:45 EDT 
interesting idea, I'd say ...
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2015-07-15 07:37:14 EDT 
Or we add a link to the Plug-in Spy.