Created attachment 118420 [details] Tooltip hides the zoom slider with its handle. Not only the +, - buttons of the zoom slider, but the inner slider has got a new tooltip by fixing tdf#82708. Unfortunately, this tooltip can hide frequently the slider, also the handle of slider, see on the attached screenshot.
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=27949c810daa4090106cbed360f80869a4813d15 tdf#93928 don't hide the zoom slider and its handle with a tooltip It will be available in 5.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2eaa2e6df239eef2a2cd9eff916449c60e5c2142&h=libreoffice-5-0 tdf#93928 don't hide the zoom slider and its handle with a tooltip It will be available in 5.0.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
(In reply to László Németh from comment #0) > Created attachment 118420 [details] > Tooltip hides the zoom slider with its handle. > > Not only the +, - buttons of the zoom slider, but the inner slider has got a > new tooltip by fixing tdf#82708. Unfortunately, this tooltip can hide > frequently the slider, also the handle of slider, see on the attached > screenshot. There wasnt a problem with it covering a portion of the statusbar zoom control as this happens also with toolbar buttons, and once a user moves his mouse close to the tooltip to access whatever is covered, it will redraw the tooltip farther away. If anything, it would be useful to modify the tooltip generation code so that in never covers the control that it appears for. @ux-advise: What are your thoughts?
> @ux-advise: What are your thoughts? Covering is a problem only for this slider widget, because (1) instead of a single or double clicks, it is used for a longer time, so we get the unnecessary tooltip every time. (2) Precise mouse moving is part of its work, that is why moving the mouse pointer to remove the bad tooltip is not an option here. Now I removed the tooltip over the zoom slider (there were no statusbar tooltip here before 2014), so it works again like the other similar widgets, sliders, ruler, etc.: without tooltip.
I agree with László in that having a tooltip for a slider is a bit superfluous. I recall we also removed a tooltip from the vertical scrollbar because it was so annoying. Also, Jay, please file a separate report to request that the UI toolkit stops overlapping widgets with tooltips.