In bug listings, show tooltips with beginnings of bug descriptions

[Scott Zawalski]

When viewing current bugs in a package or searching through bugs in the database a mouse over popup showing a description of the bug would save time and possibly bandwidth (Since users wouldn't necessarily load a bug they didn't want to handle after reading a bit more).

The behavior I am requesting is similar to the +filebug behavior when I move my mouse over the "Most Frequently Reported Bugs." When I do this I am presented with a popup of about 100 characters that provides a little more insight into the bug.

This would be great behavior to have for +bugs

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

I just encountered this, and realized it's actually quite misleading in the present form. The top several bugs can be quite old or severe, and it gives the viewer quite a bad impression to think that they're still open and frequently reported. Three out of the top four bzr bugs shown here were closed some time ago.

I realize users can still hit fix-released bugs for several reasons so I don't mind showing them, but I really think the status should be shown.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This bug report is about tooltips for bug listings, not about the contents of the "Most frequently reported bugs" or "Is the bug you’re reporting one of these?" lists. The latter I mentioned in bug 163694.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

... And the "Most frequently reported bugs" list is covered by bug 138813.