Tooltips

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Thomas Pf. <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> after playing around with 2.2 a bit (I must admit I'm currently only using
> final versions) and really loving the new features and changes, I noticed that
> there are still some buttons/icons in need of tooltips (imo):
> - The reload icon in applets (the icon is quite self-explanatory, but not
> 100%, plus it might do slightly different things in different applets)
> - The edit icon in the lyrics applet (again the icon is well chosen, but since
> users probably won't expect an edit functionality in this place, it should
> still contain a tooltip)
> - The home icon in the browser breadcrumb. since usually that icon means "home
> folder" which is not the case here.
>
> I know tooltips seem like a hassle to many developers, but especially new
> users may feel a lot less intimidated by an unknown interface if they don't
> have to click things to find out exactly what they do.

Well, thanks for the heads-up. We will certainly take a look at these issues.

Or would you like to provide a patch? That would be even better :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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