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 protected]> 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 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: [email protected] =- -- please include status messages/tooltips https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
