Hi Steve, In the first place, thanks for taking the time to elaborate.
> No. As I said that to be consistent you'd have to show all the keyboard > shortcuts available, that could be a lot of text and it is quite > possible that it would cover up the very thumbnail that the user was > looking at. I might be misinterpreting you here, but I never said anything about showing shortcuts in the tooltips. Show the image, comment (if there is one) and maybe data and name, is what I said. > Tooltips should be small and unobtrusive. But being big does not necessarily mean being obstrusive. Take a look at Pidgin, while it's not a photo browser it DOES have a contact browser, and it shows tooltips when you hover over a name. Those tooltips can become pretty big if you have more than one account assigned to a contact, but as soon as you move the cursor out of the name they fade out. I never -not once- was bothered by this behaviour, rather the opposite. I find it helpful and informative. > Another good "discoverable" reason for not doing as you should suggest > is that other applications don't use tooptips this way. But they do. Konqueror shows tooltips this way when hovering over images (I wish Nautilus had tooltip capabilities); yesterday I saw Vista's photo gallery program (don't remember its name, tho) and it does it too. > I see your point, I really do, but have you considered other users? > What about a feature that you don't find helpful but someone else does? > Should you be informed of a feature that you will never use all the > time. Microsoft got slammed for the "Clippy" helper, although some > people apparently liked it. I do think there is a misunderstanding here, because I can't see how the Clippy reference -or the users soon learning the shortcuts- is related to the issue. Please be aware that I'm NOT proposing to show the shortcuts on the tooltip. David. _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
