[Adium-devl] Adium tooltip redesign

[Chris Forsythe]

On Jun 17, 2007, at 11:16 PM, bgannin wrote:

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> On Jun 17, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
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>> 3 things:
>>
>> 1) Is the tooltip showing up from the side? If so that's really  
>> weird and I can honestly say I hate it.
>>
>> 2) I don't like the button because a tooltip should be transient  
>> data, and a button makes it something more than that. If someone  
>> can respond to this concern as to how a tooltip should not be  
>> considered transient data, or something like that, that'd be cool.
>>
>> 3) I'm not sure about the raising up part of showing off the  
>> contact which is being moused over. What's the idea there?
>
> I think at this point it's better to consider this a mini contact  
> inspector and not a tooltip. Forcing different behavior under an  
> old name doesn't work well.

I like using tooltips because I can mouse over and don't have to  
click to see info while utilizing another application (yes, I've gone  
back to using the contact list). How does this improve that use case?

Chris