why are there no tooltips on the panel?
Tooltips for indicators give a quick way to get information from indicators that would otherwise clutter the panel - for example the time and weather, network, tm, load etc applets in previous desktops. This functionality now requires, at minimum, that the user click the indicator to pull up a menu that either displays the information (breaking the menu metaphor) or to select an item that will display the information.
I understand that mouseover is not a property that can exist in touch environments, but why do we all have to suffer because of this?
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
- For:
- Unity Edit question
- Assignee:
- Nekhelesh Ramananthan Edit question
- Solved by:
- Nekhelesh Ramananthan
- Solved:
- 2012-05-02
- Last query:
- 2012-05-02
- Last reply:
- 2012-05-02
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I personally think that indicators should have tooltips. Please submit a bug report so that the developers can have a look at it. Or you can discuss in the Unity design mailing list.
| Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90) said : | #2 |
Dan can you mark this question solved, since a bug report has been opened and further discussion will take place in that report?
| Dan Kortschak (dan-kortschak) said : | #3 |
Thanks Nekhelesh Ramananthan, that solved my question.
| Adolfo Jayme (fitojb) said : | #4 |
Unity is not an interface designed for touch screens. And the tooltips’ removal is a design decision independent of that: https:/
| Dan Kortschak (dan-kortschak) said : | #5 |
OK, then it's a dubious (I'd go so far as to say fundamentally broken) design decision - for many of the reason highlighted in the link provided.
| Dan Kortschak (dan-kortschak) said : | #6 |
WRT unity's design towards allowing integration of touch interface driven devices, I'll just leave this here http://
