<div>Thomas wrote: <br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I think one of the major concerns (ok, my concern... ;-) is that the
tooltips<br>
are pretty large and cover the playlist - most likely the moment you
want to<br>
interact with it.<br></blockquote><div></div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Ppl. tend to "look with the mouse", but in a laggy way. I.e. the pointer
may<br>
hover some playlist entry while you're interested in some other....<br><br>
Long story short:<br>
I'd suggest to try to get the tooltip out of the playlist (center), i.e.
in<br>
the particular case of the mock, to the upper left or right (depending
on<br>
window position compared to the desktop area), preferably right (out of
the<br>
window)<br></blockquote><div> <br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Maybe you could also trace the cursor way, i.e. if the tooltips got
shown<br>
bottom -> up (in a short time) so far it's more likely that the user
is<br>
interested in the entry above the current one.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'm afraid that if the tooltip acts differently from any other tooltips, it might confuse the user... the most intuitive solution to the problem for me is to make the tooltip "lag" a bit, making the delay between the moment the user stops moving the mouse and the moment the tooltip appears a little longer (so that it doesn't just incessantly pop up, it only appears if the user wants it to appear). I could be wrong, of course.<br>
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The icons between the cover and the text look a bit like a splitter what<br>
lowers their indicator function.<br>
Depending on your time you could try to indent every even line.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Considering the pop-up contents are made in HTML, this can be done in no time ;) .<br><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Depending on how important a precise cover representation is, it might
be nice<br>
to use the cover + a translucent overlay (to fade it agaist the text) as<br>
tooltip background.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Excuse me, but I didn't really get it... you want to put the album cover in the background of the tooltip? Wouldn't that make the tooltip a little harder to read?<br>
Or we could just remove the cover from the tooltip altogether to make the tooltip smaller?<br><br>Besides that, I have a question: the tooltip, which will only show the info absent from the playlist itself, is right now limited to only fields that can be edited in the "Edit Track Details" window. Is there any other info that should be shown on it? (like the score or the number of times it was played...) Or should I make that editable somehow?<br>
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