On 12 May 2010 23:28, Marck Robinson <ma...@powerdata.com> wrote: > What is wrong with a win/win solution? >
See attached screenshot of a loss/loss situation 1) What's the time & date? (I'm hovering over the date/time applet) 2) Is my sound muted, low or high? 3) Do I have any pending messages in the messaging menu? 4) Which user is logged in? When asked to "click on the envelope icon" users do search with their mousepointer while they do it (e.g. first time users) they will hover over the icons while searching for the right icon the tooltips will hide the items they are searching for leading to frustration. In this context all the indicators have about the same significance and all of them are the same size. Tooltips on the other hand are much larger in size and cover more than one indicator. When your mouse pointer is in the indicator area it is area of high interest and users should be able to see all indicators and nothing should hide any of them. Also thing about visually-impaired and/or people with reduced motor skills / poor hand-eye coordination. The time it takes to get to the icon will be less than tooltip popup delay which will increase the effort to get to the indicator. And even with legacy notification icons you still click more on it (left, right, double) then hovering over them. ** Attachment added: "tooltips-bad.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48360283/tooltips-bad.png -- 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
