Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove "you can drop dockable dialogs here" label?

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gez wrote:

> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon.png

In general, I like the idea, but there's an obvious usability problem
here: this icon looks like a button, and the first thing one group of
people will try to do is to click it. Needless to say, they will fail.
Another group  of people will decide that this is an inactive button
and that they should do something to activate it, which is, again,
unapplicable to this case.

My educated guess is that only a fraction of users will read the
tooltip and act accordingly. I'd love to be proven wrong, though :)

Alexandre