A tooltip is harder to see than always-visible UI text. Therefore, a
tooltip should be used only when there isn’t enough space to convey the
information otherwise. That’s why System Settings hardly ever uses
tooltips: because there *is* enough space to convey the needed
information without them.
Even if that wasn’t true, the fact that System Settings hardly ever uses
tooltips means that for any particular element in System Settings,
people would not expect it to have a tooltip. If people aren’t expecting
it to exist, they won’t put in the effort to reveal it, so it isn’t an
effective way of conveying information.
Anyway, I’m now responsible for the design of System Settings, so I
finally get to fix this.
** Package changed: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) => unity-control-
center (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Stewart Wilson (stewartw) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
** No longer affects: ayatana-design
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"Sticky Edge" is neither obvious nor explained
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