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I love it.
Maybe change a bit the size (for sure) and colour, i.e

.hasPopover::after, .control-label .hasTooltip::after {
    content: "E";
    font-family: IcoMoon;
    font-size: 0.8rem;
    margin-left: 0.2rem;
    color: #1a3867;
}

to get

I have been suggesting exactly this also for 4.0 to be able to cope with useful missing tips (alias being a good example).

In 4.0 though, would that create issues for a11y?

For j4 we have to do it completely different. I'm quite sure something accessible is already considered for J4 and I make sure we include it in the new template.

Regarding colour: I made it extra quite small and light because in Joomla 3 still a lot of labels have some (unneeded) helptext and it looks quite massive to have them all in blue. It's not brighter then the gray of inactive drop downs so it should be ok? Any other opinions about the colour?

I'm in favor of grey Color in @coolcat-creations proposal.

You appear to have modified the BS grid in the LESS file

I did not, but i compiled the protostar css with the less compiler in the template manager. Wrong? It was not generated by generatecss.php

There must be a bug somewhere or maybe it was from a previous commit from someone else, not sure. But it should be done with generatecss.php

Somehow it did not compile it in the first moment (for protostar). Seems the lesscompiler in template works different then generatecss.php :) Now it should be ok. Thanks for seeing this @C-Lodder

Will not fight on the colour, but the size is still much too small imho.

Size is to small, true.

Since J4 implementation was mentioned here, here is what we've done so far (open with Chrome!) https://codepen.io/dgt41/pen/dzGJbK

which is based on: https://inclusive-components.design/tooltips-toggletips/

The main difference is that we're not using the question mark but the 'i' icon instead (and also we don't require some font library!)

Can't see anything in the codepen but to be a bit more consistent to the next J Version i changed it to an i and increased the icon size.

You need to use either chrome or safari (no polyfill used for custom elements), but anyhow this is what should be there

@dgt41 ok in chrome I see it - so I guess the latest commit is ready to be tested ?

I find the icons very distracting and overwhelming since the majority of the labels have them.

It will be easier with them to remove the not needed desc for following versions though

Those useless strings have been removed in j4

@brianteeman ah - thought it was already for 3.7.x why can't we remove them already now? can that be merged in 3.9.x too?

Unfortunately the language policy in 3.x doesn't allow for that which is why it was done for j4

I understand, but does not prevent us to help people to see that there are tooltips at all? Will we get it merged?

Currently everything has a tooltip - even if it is useless

Does not apply for extensions. If an extension has no tooltip the cursor still changes on hover and that's imho a bad ux. So better to display the hint.

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Patch gives the expected result

Thank you! @pjasmits

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I like it and it's useful, to my opinion.

Ready to Commit after two successful tests.

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Further input: Normally every field in Joomla has an description. Therefore normally every Field has the "question-mark-icon". This icon need space and is on costs of a clean interface. Maybe a good idea to keep the old solution.

For Joomla 3 where every field has a description (thankfully we fixed that in Joomla 4) I don't see the need for this

For other extensions that have tooltips and you don't see on which field there are explanations.

RTC removed, as pointed out in #18452 (comment) this is going to change the display for every template being compiled with the Bootstrap files used in core. To me this is an OK change to make for the core templates, but not one that we should force onto all templates.

In J4, description is displayed and not in a popover. I see no point in adding this to J3 for it to be obsolete in J4.

This PR is 2 years old :-) / you are right that we don’t need it for J4 - but for Joomla 3 it still would increase usability. A new user can’t know that some labels (also 3rd Party components) have tooltips... since some J3 Sites will exist for at least 2 years it would be great to have this UX addition.

Yes for me its important to add this... More usefull

It is 2 years old because the comments of @mbabker were not addressed

@brianteeman thank you - will look into this

Closing as no new features in J3 and this will be obsolete in J4. Thank you for your effort.