ToolTip to explain color in the first column of table view

[buhtz]

Using the JabRev 5.* dev from today. See screenshot for detailed version information.

In that screenshot you also can see blue and white colored vertical bars in the first column of the table view (2 blue, 2 white and 1 without color).

What do they mean?

It should be explained with a tooltip when hovering the color.

[fdmcneill2019]

Are there any specific explanations you want provided for each?

[buhtz]

I even have no idea what the colors mean. So I do not know what could be provided here. ;)

[tobiasdiez]

These are the colors of the groups that this entry belongs to. Thus a tooltip would be "Entry is part of the following groups: x, y, z."

[buhtz]

Ah. In that case a tooltip as I wished first would not be the right choice I think.

Simplest solution: The color is in the first column right? Title it as "group color" is to wide of course. But you could set a tooltip "group color" to the title of the column (not the entries). The neighbor columsn (url, doi, ...) also have their own tooltip.

Alternative: Or if setting up a tooltip for each entry then I would assume color and the group name (including its path!).

Also in the column settings of the settings dialog I can not see that the first column is the group color. I was looking there first.

[fdmcneill2019]

These are the colors of the groups that this entry belongs to. Thus a tooltip would be "Entry is part of the following groups: x, y, z."

So essentially, the names of the group are the same as the color names? For example, a blue bar means that the entry belongs in the group called "blue"?

[fdmcneill2019]

@noMICROSOFTbuhtz How do I find the main source code file(s) to address this issue?

[buhtz]

I am not a core developer here - just a user. I think @tobiasdiez knows the answer.

The name of the group is different from the color. I mean the tooltip should contain the name (e.g. "Science") of the group as a string and the color as a colored rectangle.

[tobiasdiez]

According to the code, there should be even a tooltip

jabref/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/maintable/MainTableColumnFactory.java

Line 142 in 4b39b78

Tooltip tooltip = new Tooltip(Localization.lang("Entry is contained in the following groups:") + "\n" + matchedGroupsString);

[buhtz]

@tobiasdiez Nice. Again the GUI lib is the "problem".

The tooltip araise only (but not everytime!) if the entry is selected. If not no tooltip. This is unusual and against standard behaviour of other GUI libs.

Other problem is that the tooltip disapears after some seconds. Even unusual. A tooltip should disapear only when the cursor is moved and not aver a delay.