Less obtrusive tooltips (Field Help text)

I am also experiencing this problem.

It would be great if there were additional theme settings to turn the 'description' portions of fields back to normal.

A checkbox on the theme configuration that says "Show field descriptions as tooltips" that is turned on by default would be fine.

I agree. This is very obtrusive. Here is a screenshot where the help text actually displays over top of the actual content.

Yeah... I had to set seven as the theme for views_ui because ember makes it almost unusable. No screenshots but I'll bump (troll) +1 etc...

I needed a temp fix so in my subtheme I added the following to override.

.form-item .description{
	display:block;
}

.form-item:hover > .description {
    background: none;
    border: none;
    box-shadow: none;
    left: 0;
    margin-top: 5px;
    padding: 0;
    position: static;
    top: 0;
}

Upon further investigation, the approach of having the help text appear when hovering is awful for touch devices as well. Since, there is no "hover" state in touch, the help text inconsistently appears/disappears. I can see the benefit of simplifying the UI by moving the help text out, but it adds a whole other level of UXWTF by doing so. I would recommend scrapping this feature altogether.

@brantwynn : If you have a patch that entirely removes this behavior I'll commit it. This is causing a lot of people problems.

I'll work on a patch this week.

@brantwynn

Awesome, thx.

@brantwynn Went ahead and patched it myself

Pushed to 7.x-1.x branch

Oh, word...Thanks tkoleary!