secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Preferences search highlights other settings due to tooltips
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- C++
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Description
Environment
Second Life Release 7.1.13.14542338120 (2025.04)
Description
As mentioned in https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/3653, Preferences search will highlight settings where the searched text appears in tooltips.
Reproduction steps
Search terms mentioned in tooltips
E.g. "draw" highlights "Avatar maximum complexity"
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no source files or tests. Reproduce the problem in the Preferences search using "draw", then trace the search matching and highlighting entry point to determine how tooltip text is included. It is done when text found only in a tooltip no longer highlights unrelated settings, while valid setting matches still do.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100