Tooltip of items in Menubar should be less picky (GNA #5162)

[wesnoth-bugs]

Original submission by eleazar on 2006-01-27

Currently the tooltip lable only appears when you mouse over the icons in the menubar: i.e. "villages", "income" etc. It wouldn't be hard to miss the fact that there are tooltips for these items at all.

It would be more user friendly if placing the pointer anywhere in the dark box that cointains the icon and number would invoke the tooltip to be displayed.

(Reproduced on any)
Release: trunk
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 2 - Minor

[GregoryLundberg]

As of 1.13.10 this still needs a bit of improvement.

When you mouse over the icon you get a brief generic tooltip like "coins" but then you mouse over the value you get a long description.

• The brief tooltip should be replaced with the longer.
• The space between the icon and value should also show the tooltip
• A bit of the inter-item space should also show the tooltip
• The flag tooltip shows the player/leader name whose turn this is. But the turn number tooltip is generic. Merge the two ideas.

[CelticMinstrel]

I seem to recall being the one who made that change (with the longer tooltip), and I'm pretty sure the theme system makes it difficult to give the same tooltip to the icon.

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be to make the icon part of the generated report, but that wouldn't allow themes to install a different icon if they so chose. (Though that problem is probably solvable in some other way.)