Flyover text contains undesirable prefix 'Specifies '

From: K.-Michael Aye kmichael.aye@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Subject: [Enthought-Dev] [traits] 'desc' argument problem
To: enthought-dev@enthought.com

Using 'desc' with any (I tried Button and Str) adds the string
'Specifies' in the bubble text in front of the given text on my system.

So when I do:
status = Str(desc='Feedback text')

and I hover over this Item, the bubble text says: 'Specifies Feedback text'