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patch: show_ui_tooltip
corvid
2013-09-11 15:34:06 UTC
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Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
Johannes Hofmann
2013-09-11 19:14:49 UTC
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Post by corvid
Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
What about using the existing prefs.show_tooltip variable for both
types of tooltips? I would guess that someone either likes / wants
tooltips or not independent of whether it's for the UI or the page
contents.

Cheers,
Johannes
Sebastian Geerken
2013-09-12 14:14:04 UTC
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Post by Johannes Hofmann
Post by corvid
Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
What about using the existing prefs.show_tooltip variable for both
types of tooltips? I would guess that someone either likes / wants
tooltips or not independent of whether it's for the UI or the page
contents.
Tooltips are useful to get an idea what an (simple to recognize, but
otherwise per se unrelated to the meaning) icon is for. (At least for
me, the text "Reload" makes much more sense than two bent arrows
pointing to each other's tail).

After some while, a user remembers the icon, so she does not need the
text anymore; and I guess that icons are faster to realise than text.
On the other hand, this argument does not count for (new) web pages,
where the meaning of the icons is not yet known.

For this reason, my opinion is that a distinction is not completely
pointless.

Sebastian
Johannes Hofmann
2013-09-13 07:08:23 UTC
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Post by Sebastian Geerken
Post by Johannes Hofmann
Post by corvid
Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
What about using the existing prefs.show_tooltip variable for both
types of tooltips? I would guess that someone either likes / wants
tooltips or not independent of whether it's for the UI or the page
contents.
Tooltips are useful to get an idea what an (simple to recognize, but
otherwise per se unrelated to the meaning) icon is for. (At least for
me, the text "Reload" makes much more sense than two bent arrows
pointing to each other's tail).
After some while, a user remembers the icon, so she does not need the
text anymore; and I guess that icons are faster to realise than text.
On the other hand, this argument does not count for (new) web pages,
where the meaning of the icons is not yet known.
For this reason, my opinion is that a distinction is not completely
pointless.
Ok, I'm fine with two separate variables too.

Johannes
Jorge Arellano Cid
2013-09-13 12:31:49 UTC
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Post by Johannes Hofmann
Post by Sebastian Geerken
Post by Johannes Hofmann
Post by corvid
Someone in the bug tracker was asking about turning off the ui's tooltips.
What about using the existing prefs.show_tooltip variable for both
types of tooltips? I would guess that someone either likes / wants
tooltips or not independent of whether it's for the UI or the page
contents.
Tooltips are useful to get an idea what an (simple to recognize, but
otherwise per se unrelated to the meaning) icon is for. (At least for
me, the text "Reload" makes much more sense than two bent arrows
pointing to each other's tail).
After some while, a user remembers the icon, so she does not need the
text anymore; and I guess that icons are faster to realise than text.
On the other hand, this argument does not count for (new) web pages,
where the meaning of the icons is not yet known.
For this reason, my opinion is that a distinction is not completely
pointless.
Ok, I'm fine with two separate variables too.
+1
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Cheers
Jorge.-
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