I just skimmed over the last few messages, so forgive me if I'm repeating something. Just thought I'd put in my two cents.
I also had no idea the 'v' key did what it does until I stumbled upon it by accident. It would be nice if that was somehow made more apparent. However I would not want something like that appearing when I hover with the mouse. I think it would be distracting, if not in-the-way. I would probably be ok with a small tooltip, like one line of text, if it provided some useful information, but no more than that. Also, if people are so torn on whether it's a good idea or not, then it doesn't belong in the main F-Spot code as a standard feature, but as a plugin. Then those who want it can install it, without bothering those who don't. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:36 PM, David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I've been out all evening and thus missed several of your messages, so > let me reply to several comments: > > > > > That way users like me get what they want -they have a lot of small > > > thumbnails but can see a detailed picture easily- and users like you get > > > what they want too -they have a few big thumbnails and are not bothered > > > by tooltips that are probably the same size as the thumbnails are-. > > > > I would amend your suggestion and say that above a certain size that the > > thumbnail should be modifier enabled (as it is at present). > > I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by "modifier enabled"? Could > you elaborate? > > > Whenever you don't want to look at an enlarged thumbnail. Does it > > > matter what the reason it? There are workflows, mine for example, > > where > > the enlarged thumbnail is counterproductive. > > Yeah, with small thumbnails it's easy enough to move out of the picture > if you want the tooltip to go away, but with huge thumbnails I can > picture it being bothersome. I hadn't thought of that case until you > mentioned it. > > > But what about the case when you press the control key just before > > > pressing the I key (show metadata). Or for that matter Ctrl-F to > > toggle > > the displaying of the "Find Bar". There must be loads of short cuts > > that use Ctrl where removing the enlarged thumbnail would be a wrong. > > I don't see anything wrong with removing the tooltips at those times. > Actually, I don't see anything wrong with displaying them either. How > would that slow your workflow? > > > > Of course David's auto zoom on mouse over would completely disable > > > the > > drag and drop functionality. For this reason (and this reason alone) > > I > > can see the development team never implementing David's suggestion > > because that functionality is useful at all thumbnail sizes. > > Nope, it would not disable DnD at all. Take a look at Pidgin: tooltips > appear slightly above or below the cursor, never on top of it. The > cursor is still on the item, so you can drag it just like there were no > tooltip. > > Go on, give it a try on Pidgin. See how tooltips don't keep you from > dragging. > > I would love to propose a sane default to implement this, and open it to > discussion. But first I'd like to make sure that we all agree if > tooltips hinder dragging or not. So please give it a try. > > David. > > > > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > -- -Michael Wayne Goodman _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
