Completion tooltips on method signatures differ from tooltips on hover

[timheuer]

When a method signature in the editor has comments a nice description is shown in both the completions experience and the hover info tooltip experience. However the UX is different. In hover you get syntax highlighting in the method signature and the editor uses the screen efficiently to show the information. In completions it seems a fixed box size and there is now a loss in syntax highlighting.

Examples:

On info hover (mouse over the method):

On completion (typing, using the method and seeing the tooltip popup):

Observe these two problematic issues:

• tiny space given (fixed box size, no wrap, no scroll ability)
• lack of colorization on the signature different than the hover

This is TypeScript but happens with other languages as well.

[timheuer]

/cc @isidorn

[isidorn]

Assigning to @aiday-mar first to get her take.

fyi @hediet

[aiday-mar]

This item seems to be more related to the completions than the editor hover (here the editor hover is used as an example)

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[timheuer]

correct @aiday-mar the completions hover is distinctly different and lacks semantic coloring, seems fixed UX space