[ge-talk] help SW

[Waldemar Kornewald]

On 1/26/07, Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer at utanet.at> wrote:
> That's way I mentioned tooltips. Here you just move the mouse
> over a tool icon and after a short delay the tooltip appears.

I always wondered why we need that delay, at all. I don't know about
you, but for me it's always like this:

1. I want to see the tool tip, but then I have to wait... I find this
case very frustrating (e.g.: check the current date on the WinXP task
bar).

2. I'm not interested in the tool tip, but in most cases it doesn't
get in my way and in the other cases it's not a problem to move the
mouse somewhere else.

Some apps seem to work around this delay by providing a status bar at
the bottom (Firefox, Explorer, ...), but this means that the object
you point at and the information about the object are displayed at
separate places (indirection) and the available screen space is used
ineffectively.

I've used apps which show tool tips without any delay (mostly web
apps) and I've always liked that. I think we should get rid of delays
wherever possible/practical.

Bye,
Waldemar Kornewald