Bug 73592

Summary:	mouse cursor over formula element should display tooltip with syntax
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Christoph Thielecke <crissi99>
Component:	Formula Editor	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jbfaure
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.1.3.2 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Christoph Thielecke 2014-01-14 08:07:00 UTC

When the user points the mouse cursor over a formula element of the toolbox a tooltip with the corresponding syntax should be displayed. It will be help the not advanced users to learn the formula syntax. This behavior maybe should be configurable in settings.

Example:
[ ] * [ ]
should display
<?> times <?>

Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-03-01 14:10:42 UTC

I disagree because it seems to me more valuable to read the meaning of the formula than to see its syntax because the job of the toolbox is to make the knowledge of the syntax useless. Additionally clicking on an element pastes this syntax in the code window, so you can learn the syntax you want by trying it.


Best regards. JBF

Comment 2 Marcos Souza 2014-03-03 20:14:58 UTC

So, we can close this, or maybe we can improve toolbox?

Comment 3 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-03-04 05:03:52 UTC

Closing as WontFix.
Please, feel free to reopen, if you have an idea to improve the toolbox without loosing the informations actually displayed.

Best regards. JBF