Re: Display bigger version of a photo on a tooltip

[David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com>]

Hi Steve,

I've been out all evening and thus missed several of your messages, so
let me reply to several comments:

> > That way users like me get what they want -they have a lot of small
> > thumbnails but can see a detailed picture easily- and users like you get
> > what they want too -they have a few big thumbnails and are not bothered
> > by tooltips that are probably the same size as the thumbnails are-.
> 
> I would amend your suggestion and say that above a certain size that the
> thumbnail should be modifier enabled (as it is at present).

I'm not sure I follow you. What do you mean by "modifier enabled"? Could
you elaborate?

> Whenever you don't want to look at an enlarged thumbnail.  Does it
> matter what the reason it?  There are workflows, mine for example,
> where
> the enlarged thumbnail is counterproductive.

Yeah, with small thumbnails it's easy enough to move out of the picture
if you want the tooltip to go away, but with huge thumbnails I can
picture it being bothersome. I hadn't thought of that case until you
mentioned it.

> But what about the case when you press the control key just before
> pressing the I key (show metadata).  Or for that matter Ctrl-F to
> toggle
> the displaying of the "Find Bar".  There must be loads of short cuts
> that use Ctrl where removing the enlarged thumbnail would be a wrong.

I don't see anything wrong with removing the tooltips at those times.
Actually, I don't see anything wrong with displaying them either. How
would that slow your workflow?


> Of course David's auto zoom on mouse over would completely disable
> the
> drag and drop functionality.  For this reason (and this reason alone)
> I
> can see the development team never implementing David's suggestion
> because that functionality is useful at all thumbnail sizes.

Nope, it would not disable DnD at all. Take a look at Pidgin: tooltips
appear slightly above or below the cursor, never on top of it. The
cursor is still on the item, so you can drag it just like there were no
tooltip.

Go on, give it a try on Pidgin. See how tooltips don't keep you from
dragging.

I would love to propose a sane default to implement this, and open it to
discussion. But first I'd like to make sure that we all agree if
tooltips hinder dragging or not. So please give it a try.

David.