Re: On dynamic text expansion in message tray when an icon is hovered

[Marcel <lists nightsoul org>]

Am 26.06.2011 14:13, schrieb Tim Cuthbertson:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
> <pclouds gmail com> wrote:
>> Does anybody else find it difficult to click on an icon in message
>> tray? If I just move my pointer a little bit further to next icon on
>> the right of the icon I want to select, the icon will be moved and it
>> takes more time to move my mouse back and forth to locate to my icon.
>>
>> Why can't we just use tooltip instead and make icon placement more persistent?
>> --
>> Duy
> 
> Agreed. This makes it impractical to actually use the notification
> area without having to be really careful. I assume there's a redesign
> of that area in the pipeline (it seems unloved, and the whole panel
> applets issue still seems somewhat under-developed), so hopefully
> that's going to be fixed as part of that work? (I'm just guessing, I
> have no idea if any such work is even planned).

People always said that clicking the text works fine, therefore the
jumping icons are not a problem. With Pidgin however, clicking the text
just shows the recent notification (which made me want to open the
contact list!) and doesn't behave like clicking the Pidgin tray icon
directly. That only works as intended when there's no recent notification.
(Should this possibly go into a bug report? I've no overview which bugs
are known...)

Marcel