As Karen pointed in #324610, the new UI to add fields makes currently no use of the fields and widget description texts provided in hook_[field|widget]_info.

We could imagine a JS-based solution that displays the descriptions when the user hovers over the entries in the dropdown selectors.
I'm just not sure of where.
- We don't want this to take too much additional screen estate
- below the select : obviously no good, because this area gets hidden when the select is unfolded
- above the select : the area only has the width of the enclosing table cell, which might cause linebreaks and scrolling hiccups
- I was thinking maybe the area to the right of the 'Add' separator ?

Suggestions ?

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yched commented
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See screenshot

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karens commented

The problem with the screenshot is that the help text is kind of far away from the thing it's describing, so people are likely to miss it. But I don't know that I have any better ideas. Is there any way to get a 'tooltips' type popup hovering right by the field type name? Have you seen http://www.lullabot.com/articles/announcing-beautytips-jquery-tooltip-pl...? Can we use something like that somewhere?

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yched commented

"the help text is kind of far away from the thing it's describing"
Not that much, IMO. I don't think a user would miss something flickering in this area.

I saw the jQ tooltip annoucement, didn't think about this here. Hm. To keep in mind.

Well, main trouble for now is I can't seem to have mouseover events caught on individual select options. 

$('option', some_select_).mouseover(function(){
  $("#content-field_overview-hints").html("mouse over");
}).mouseout(function(){
  $("#content-field_overview-hints").html("");
});

Works in FF, not in IE7.
If any one has tried this before and has suggestions ? Google raised nothing so far.

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yched commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

OK, actually it seems only FF would support such a solution. Other browsers I've tried (IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome) do not trigger any JS events when hovering the unfolded options.

So unless we come with another idea, which I don't for now, this is a won't fix...