[Adium-devl] Adium tooltip redesign

[Peter Hosey]

On Jun 17, 2007, at 23:17:44, Matt Toohey wrote:
> Do you mean when you click on the contact, the tooltip appears? To  
> me that seems odd behaviour since the single click would be invoked  
> mid-way through the usual double-click-to-open-a-conversation.

Certainly, we would wait the DblTime (double-click timeout) before  
showing the tooltip under that proposal.

> I guess you could only invoke the tooltip if the mouse is clicked  
> with no other click in a certain time period, but this would make  
> the process seem unresponsive and slow to the end user.

Not at all; the DblTime is very short. On my system, it's half a  
second. Try this AppleScript to see how short that is:

	beep
	delay 0.5
	beep

Here's a test app that you can use to determine your DblTime:

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I do worry that users with much slower double-click settings than I  
have will have much longer double-click times. The system will wait  
up to several seconds for you, depending on how you set that slider.  
Mine is at the default, though, so I do think that most users, having  
never changed it, will have the same half-second timeout.

I presume that those who have made it slower have done so for a  
reason; they want the delay in creating the message window because  
without it, they would only ever get a tooltip.
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