feat(ui): display entity hint on mouse hover #1962
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Some devices may expose quite a lot of items. If these items are supplied with a description, the interface may get cluttered. If the description has certain amount of text describing values of the field, the interface gets too busy.
The idea of the proposed change is to have a hint field in addition to the description field in the device definition. The description may be used for a short 1-line description of the entity, while the hint may include big amount of text describing entity values or more detailed description of the setting. The hint text is not visible by default, but is shown in a hint/bubble when mouse is over the element.
This is a UI part of the change, it comes with this change in the herdsman converters, adding support for Hint field. Here is the usage: