# Texte d'aide et infobulles dans les préférences utilisateur

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-text-and-tool-tips-in-user-preferences/112490>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [Mars 25, 2019, 9:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-text-and-tool-tips-in-user-preferences/112490 "2019-03-25T09:43:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [Mars 25, 2019, 10:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-text-and-tool-tips-in-user-preferences/112490/2 "2019-03-25T10:50:51Z")

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> [@tophee](#):
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> Each tab of the user preferences should have a short explanation of what this tab is about. Putting it directly under the heading probably makes most sense.

Yes, this isn’t a bad idea, but maybe only for TL0 and possibly TL1 users.

> [@tophee](#):
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> The same text should also displayed as a tool-tip when hovering over the respective menu item

Ehhh I don’t think “secret” hover behaviors should really be encouraged in the world any more. Smartphones have basically made them obsolete anyway; there’s no way to get that paradigm to work on touch. Hover tooltips, to me, seem more like an oddball UI crutch than a thing people really _need_.

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