[PATCH] Konqueror: website icon in icons visible with close buttons

[Thomas Zander]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:55, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> Since I consider the following patch more as a wish than a bug fix I
> propose it here first. It changes the behaviour behind the (well
> hidden) option in Konqueror "Show close button instead of website
> icon". This patch will make the website icon always visible, unless the
> mouse is hovering the icon, then it shows a close button. This implies
> a string change as well (not in the patch).

What string change did you propose? The patch did not include any that I 
found.

I didn't apply the patch; but from your description this means the user 
can unexpectedly see the tab being closed because there was no close 
button visible until the user actually moved the mouse and clicked.

Having the (visible) function of a clickable item change in the middle of 
doing an action (moving the mouse over it to close it, and clicking) 
sounds dangerous to me.  Consider the case for users with large mouse 
pointers where this small icon being changed is not very visible.

Then again; considering that tooltips dont work for the non-active tab 
(making the visual change a plus) plus that this is a feature that is 
reasonably obscure and hard enough to find to assume the user understands 
the behavior, I'm not objecting; just hoping that this advice will be 
kept in mind if this feature is tweaked more.

Stefan Binner is the original author IIRC; so please wait for his reply :)
-- 
Thomas Zander
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