Tooltips for Git and GitHub buttons in status bar

[annthurium]

While conducting a user interview yesterday, @kuychaco pointed out that there are no tooltips for the Git and GitHub buttons in the status bar. The branch management button also does not have a hover tooltip (the menu is itself a tooltip, but ehh, that's more of an implementation detail.)

Tooltips that trigger on hover might help users understand what these buttons do before they click and or improve discoverability. Or they might just annoy our users and take up valuable screen real estate. Seems worth investigating.

[simurai]

improve discoverability. Or they might just annoy

Good question. Personally it would annoy me seeing the tooltip every time, but only because I know the meaning of those buttons. For example in Gmail, I appreciate having tooltips because I forget what some icons mean.

Here an idea. Have some sort of "smart" tooltips:

• If a button gets used a lot, don't show a tooltip
• If a button rarely gets used, show a tooltip

Probably out of scope for the near future. :smile:

Another idea: Add tooltips but also increase the delay a bit until they show. Maybe same as fetch/pull/push that has quite a long delay. Then for fast clickers no tooltips would show up.

[StarTrooper08]

This is great idea of adding tooltip . So that the beginners could able understand the tools and control. I would like to give a try to contribute to this issue #1848 . But before that can I get to know some detailed information about this scenario . Since I m a beginner to open source but have hands on programming from years . Thank you