On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:18 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > I like to suggest a more general solution for the longterm that I have > not seen so far: > > I would like to see ANYTHING happen when I hover an icon. This is a > common thing for panel icons and I don't understand why we do not > provide information and also interactivity for hover after a while.
Accessibility would be one concern, I guess, since "hovering" involves a timeout, a change of available functionality that's not a direct result of user action, and reasonable motor skills, all of which can be problematic if not done thoughtfully. We get around all of these things for tooltips by providing a keyboard shortcut to turn them on/off on demand-- perhaps we could do something similar for 'hovering', although adding more shortcuts is something not to be done lightly either :) > Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
