[ge-talk] help SW

[Ari Haviv]

Actually there is a very good reason for this delay
Move your mouse across a toolbar. Now if there was no tooltip delay,
you'd see tooltips instantly appearing and vanishing very quickly.
That would be highly distracting and tick people off!
Also see
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/hysteresis.html

On 1/26/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
> 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
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