Comment 9 for bug 527458

On Friday 19,March,2010 08:14 PM, Jud Craft wrote:
> The issue seems to be that indicator icon information is not immediately
> available on mouseover.
>
> Instead of a tooltip, why not just automatically open the menu on mouse-
> over, similar to KDE's panel menus in OpenSUSE?
>
> It would mean that any indicator icon automatically reveals its options
> and info on mouseover, and it doesn't require a tooltip. Mousing away
> could close the menu.
>
> That's a much different interaction than previously discussed, but it
> would also solve the "show status immediately" problem.
>

That would solve the show status immediately problem, but it would result in a
potentially large menu showing up. This can pose problems especially for people
who seem to be less proficient at wielding the mouse. I know people who can
continuously trigger my screen's hot corner for Compiz's scale feature multiple
times in a row, and that is a screen corner. Think about how many menus they'll
spawn if they accidentally hit the top of the screen where all the application
indicator icons are instead.

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Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer