[Adium-devl] Watching a first time Adium user for 5 minutes

[Colin Barrett]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2007, at 20:56:29, Colin Barrett wrote:
>> Say protocol ABC's official client shows offline contacts by  
>> default. If they add *just* an ABC account at the wizard, we set  
>> the default value of the pref to match that.
>
> Ah. That makes sense.
>
>> Er? Nobody will ever hover over the groups? All contacts are in
>> groups, so it seems like hovering will happen quite often.
>
> *Moving* over (and past) the groups, yes. *Hovering* over the  
> groups, no. (“Hover” implies non-movement; we definitely shouldn't  
> be throwing tooltips at the screen while the cursor is in motion.)

It's a blurry line between hover and moving over. Behaviors you (maybe  
not YOU, you ;) might think of as moving may actually have a slight  
delay,  so as to guard against accidental user input.

> And hovering over contacts ought not to reveal group info; it should  
> only apply to the group header. Since nobody will hover over the  
> group header, I see no solution to the problem there.


>> Should I go ahead and change this on trunk?
>
> I have no objection.

Further discussion:
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/6190

-Colin