posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Missing tooltip for ellipsis menu in column headers of data explorer
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accessibility
area: data explorer
enhancement
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
System details:
Positron and OS details:
Positron Version: 2025.10.0 build 156
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 74261231013aba3599280cc235e255d77c7aa12c
Date: 2025-09-30T07:11:44.047Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0
Expected or desired behavior:
Tooltip 'Columns Options' or related text should be present upon hovering.
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by hovering over the ellipsis menu in a data explorer column header, then trace the data explorer's column-header and tooltip entry points. The work is done when a tooltip such as “Columns Options” appears on hover, with the relevant UI behavior verified manually.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100