Comment 45 for bug 527458

Except of course that if it's triggered by a user action (hovering the
mouse over an icon), there's a notification potentially on the
opposite side of the screen, away from where attention is currently
focused. A big intuitivity loss from tooltips, in my opinion.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:59, Jan Nekvasil <email address hidden> wrote:
> I see the possible use of notify-osd as the replacement for indicator
> tooltips as a splendid idea. The content which are we now missing is
> obviously not the tooltip itself (that means short description what the
> icon does) at all, but the application's status, propagated trough the
> (misused) tooltips.
>
> Pros:
> - all content placed at the same, consistent place.
> - bigger, well formated, easy to read
> - does not mess with the cursor
>
> Cons:
> - ?
>
> THIS could be the next great thing in Ubuntu experience (and I'm very
> excited about that idea).
>
> --
> please include status messages/tooltips
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458
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