Rating colum has no header description

[stefan-kolb]

We should add a description here, especially since clicking inside the column always opens up the rating menu which is inconvenient when i just want to open the dit view of the entry which works for all other columns.

Two small columns next to rating also have no description and I don't even know what they do.

[koppor]

The reason for directly changing the flags convenience for quick changing of flags and ratings. I fully agree that the columns should be labeled. As far as I remember, that seemed to be really difficult to achieve. Maybe postpone for #113?

[matthiasgeiger]

The problem is not to place a header label, but the space required for this: E.g. the column for flagging, "print status", etc. are only a few px wide - but a description would require far more space.
There is actually already the preference setting to "show one letter column headings" - which helps a bit ;-)

The best solution would be to show the "icon" of the column as header label (which should not be a problem with our new font based icon set) and provide a tooltip when hovering over the column headers

[matthiasgeiger]

... and remove the mentioned prefs option 😉

[oscargus]

There is also a method setAlternativeDisplayName() in BibtexSingleField (in BibTexFields) which should do the trick (that is currently unused). Adding dummy.setAlternativeName("Rank"); etc in lines 112 to 154 of BibtexFields. Which isn't completely true, as this works for the column ranking, but the actual ranking column shown is iconcol:ranking.

[matthiasgeiger]

Implemented with #452 - changes are available now in current development builds and will be released with 3.1