• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Component/s: core
• Labels:

  • gui
  • help
• Environment:

  Jenkins 2.346.3
  (Running on Java 11, no container, RH Linux)

[JENKINS-69721] Confusing helptexts on hover

Martin Jost created issue - 2022-09-28 08:48

Mark Waite made changes - 2022-09-28 19:20

Summary

Original: Confusing helptexts on hoover

New: Confusing helptexts on hover

Mark Waite made changes - 2022-09-28 19:20

Description

Original: Current state: The help texts on the '?' in the GUI just shows "Help for Feature:..." on hoover. !image-2022-09-27-12-07-03-834.png! Yes, I need to click it - but neither me nor my teammates realized this. Proposed state: It would be nice, if the button on hoovering would tell so9mething like "Click to see help text"

New: Current state: The help texts on the '?' in the GUI just shows "Help for Feature:..." on hover. !image-2022-09-27-12-07-03-834.png! Yes, I need to click it - but neither me nor my teammates realized this. Proposed state: It would be nice, if the button on hoovering would tell so9mething like "Click to see help text"

Collapse comment: Martin Jost added a comment - 2022-10-19 13:18

Martin Jost added a comment - 2022-10-19 13:18

I realized, that a part of my confusion comes from other web interfaces, where I see the help text on hoovering over the

This made me assume the same here as well -probably after I switched from a tool like that, to Jenkins...

Expand comment: Martin Jost added a comment - 2022-10-19 13:18

Martin Jost added a comment - 2022-10-19 13:18 I realized, that a part of my confusion comes from other web interfaces, where I see the help text on hoovering over the This made me assume the same here as well -probably after I switched from a tool like that, to Jenkins...