Comment 46 for bug 527458

On 27 March 2010 04:33, Jeremy Nickurak <email address hidden> wrote:
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> 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.

Yes that could be painful. Though I am assuming a default setup where
hopefully (!) a string of indicators doesn't stretch right across the
panel. It wouldn't be fun to need to move your focus from side to side
every time, even if you are expecting the bubble.

>
> 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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> please include status messages/tooltips
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458
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