On Friday 19,March,2010 08:14 PM, Jud Craft wrote: > The issue seems to be that indicator icon information is not immediately > available on mouseover. > > Instead of a tooltip, why not just automatically open the menu on mouse- > over, similar to KDE's panel menus in OpenSUSE? > > It would mean that any indicator icon automatically reveals its options > and info on mouseover, and it doesn't require a tooltip. Mousing away > could close the menu. > > That's a much different interaction than previously discussed, but it > would also solve the "show status immediately" problem. >
That would solve the show status immediately problem, but it would result in a potentially large menu showing up. This can pose problems especially for people who seem to be less proficient at wielding the mouse. I know people who can continuously trigger my screen's hot corner for Compiz's scale feature multiple times in a row, and that is a screen corner. Think about how many menus they'll spawn if they accidentally hit the top of the screen where all the application indicator icons are instead. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Developer -- please include status messages/tooltips https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
