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fonol / anki-search-inside-add-card

An add-on providing full-text-search and PDF reading functionality to Anki's Add card dialog
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1781298089
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Not an issue, simple feature request #172

Open sasank89 opened 3 years ago

sasank89 commented 3 years ago

Hi, The add-on has been great so far. The one thing that I always felt and hoped was if there was the option of screen hints on hovering over the various buttons in the interface. Many of them are just icons. For new users, being able to get screen hints on hover does make adapting to the add-on's functionality easy.

Thank you in advance.

fonol commented 3 years ago

Hi, what specific buttons do you think could profit most of tooltips? I haven't really placed too many tooltips up to now, as you noticed. First (really subjective) reason, when I already know the functionality of a button, it kind of annoys me when they pop up. Also, I learned there is no option to style the native browser tooltips, so when on nightmode, it doesn't look very good (beige-background tooltip on black window). I guess the way to go would be using something like https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/ which looks good and allows easy customization, and then make the tooltips toggle-able in the settings.

sasank89 commented 3 years ago

Hi fonol! Great work so far on the add-on!

I am thinking specifically about the buttons on the left and bottom sides of the PDF reader. I know that those are some kind of annotation tools, but it is not clear upfront which one does what. That was where I had the most difficulty.

The tooltips should definitely be toggle-able. That way beginners can enable them and then disable them later once they get comfortable with the add-on.

I wish I can help you solve this itself, but my programming skills are only rudimentary at the moment. Let me know if there is any way I can help.