Re: Display bigger version of a photo on a tooltip
- From: "Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com>
- To: "David Prieto" <frandavid100 gmail com>
- Cc: f-spot-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Display bigger version of a photo on a tooltip
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:47 -0700
I just skimmed over the last few messages, so forgive me if I'm
repeating something. Just thought I'd put in my two cents.
I also had no idea the 'v' key did what it does until I stumbled upon
it by accident. It would be nice if that was somehow made more
apparent.
However I would not want something like that appearing when I hover
with the mouse. I think it would be distracting, if not in-the-way.
I would probably be ok with a small tooltip, like one line of text, if
it provided some useful information, but no more than that.
Also, if people are so torn on whether it's a good idea or not, then
it doesn't belong in the main F-Spot code as a standard feature, but
as a plugin. Then those who want it can install it, without bothering
those who don't.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:36 PM, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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