[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] palette timeouts (was Re: #1169 NORM: Drop down menus give no indication of their existence, also are too slow to load.)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

looks like Seeta is interested in doing something about this.

Do we have any kind of agreement on what changes should be done?

Thanks,

Tomeu

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 06:51, Sugar Labs Bugs
<bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> #1169: Drop down menus give no indication of their existence, also are too slow to
> load.
> -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
>    Reporter:  wwdillingham  |          Owner:  tomeu
>        Type:  enhancement   |         Status:  new
>    Priority:  Normal        |      Milestone:  0.90
>   Component:  sugar         |        Version:  Unspecified
>    Severity:  Critical      |       Keywords:  interface design usability sugar-love GPA
> Distribution:  Unspecified   |   Status_field:  Needinfo
> -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
>
> Comment(by FGrose):
>
>  In my estimation, reducing the hover-delay-time-before-palette-showing by
>  50 to 70 % would make the palettes more discoverable.  Pop-up help and
>  previews on the web seem to pop up pretty quickly these days.
>
>  This would be an easier mitigation to implement and would help on action
>  buttons with palette menus as well.
>
>  I like the left click reveal, where possible, as well.
>
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> Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1169#comment:14>
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