https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470043
--- Comment #3 from John Veness <john....@pelago.org.uk> --- I did wonder if it was intentional to make them disappear. Maybe that decision can be reviewed by UX people. My use case is that I sometimes like to monitor what's happening in another window (e.g. a compile, or a chat) without needing to bring up the full size window, or resize windows or split my desktop. The five second timeout is too short for that. I'm sure there are other ways to achieve my use case, but hovering over the task manager entry is quick, easy, and intuitive. For what it's worth, the window preview "tooltips" don't timeout in MS Windows. Not that we should always copy everything Microsoft does, but there is the argument of "matching user expectations". Also, I assume Microsoft spend millions on user testing research so (although again that doesn't mean they get everything right) it's nice to piggy-back on that! As mentioned, other tooltip-like things don't timeout, including some equally large/intrusive ones such as the Virtual Desktop Pager, so it's not consistent. I don't think it's particularly onerous to make the user move the mouse to a non-tooltippy area if they find the preview intrusive. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
