[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-03-26 Thread J Putt
What are people's thought's on a.tom's suggestion of using notify-osd? With this approach they could be classed as confirmation bubbles ("confirming" the status of the system represented by the menu icon, or is that stretching it a bit?) triggered by mouse-hover (as opposed to mouse-in). "Status"

Re: [Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-03-26 Thread J Putt
On 27 March 2010 04:33, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > 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 to