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ux(button): show the label as a tooltip when QueryaButton truncates it

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
accessibility, frontend

Research direction

Start in querya_button.dart at the label layout and tooltip logic noted around lines 375 and 513. Use a LayoutBuilder and TextPainter to check whether the single line exceeds the label's available width, while preserving explicit tooltips and skipping icon-only buttons. Add or update tests for a truncated label, a fitting label, and explicit tooltips; done when only the truncated label gets its full text as a tooltip.

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Description

enhancement ui

From a review of the component library, checked against dev.

Problem

QueryaButton draws its label with maxLines: 1 and TextOverflow.ellipsis (querya_button.dart, ~line 375). The tooltip is only shown when tooltip is set or the button is icon-only (~line 513). A label cut short by a narrow toolbar or a long translation therefore cannot be read by hovering.

Not this

Do not simply fall back to label as the tooltip: every button would then show "Save" over "Save" on hover.

Change
  • Show the label as the tooltip only when it is actually truncated: lay the text out with a TextPainter (maxLines: 1, the button's text style, the width the label gets) and check didExceedMaxLines, in a LayoutBuilder. An explicit tooltip still wins.
  • Check that a button which fits shows no tooltip, and that one which does not shows the full label.
Acceptance
  • Narrow QueryaButton with a long label shows the full label as a tooltip on hover.
  • A button that fits shows no tooltip of its own.
  • The extra layout pass is not paid by buttons with an explicit tooltip, or by icon-only buttons.
Considered in the same review and left out
  • AppToast keeps its overlay in statics (app_toast.dart: _entry, _overlay). The review wanted an AppToastScope for multi-window use; the app has one window (bitsdojo_window only restyles it), so there is no problem to solve today.
  • QueryaTabStrip announcing a tab change: each tab is a Semantics(button, selected) with its own Focus, and arrow keys move focus, so a screen reader reads the selected tab already. An extra SemanticsService.announce would read it twice.
Dominant language
Dart
Stars
23
Forks
1
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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