GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521546
Tooltip when hovering over photos
Last modified: 2018-07-12 00:02:29 UTC
I love how pressing "v" while hovering over a photo in the photo browser summons a bigger version of it with its comment, date and filename. It's hardly discoverable, though. I have been using f-spot for a long time and only just discovered it. Could they appear as tooltips when you hover the mouse over a photo? How I would ideally have it work: -If you hover the mouse over a photo for a couple seconds you enter "tooltip mode". -In this mode, a tooltip showing a bigger thumbnail, comment, date and name appears. If you move the mouse from one photo to the next, tooltips keep appearing for each photo hovered over. -Tooltip mode ends if you move the mouse out of the area where pictures are shown.
I have to say that I think this would be a bad "improvement" to implement. While the keyboard shortcuts may have been difficult to find in the User Guide I found them quite easy in the on-line help. So I think the information is there for anyone who goes looking for it and help would be an obvious place to look - hardly undiscoverable. After all to be consistent not just the 'v' key would have to be listed. All the other short key cuts and the other controls too, like Ctrl-Wheelmouse back and for to enlarge/shrink the thumbnails. This is going to make the tooltip quite large and likely to obscure some of the thumbnail images. As we are in browser surely those are the very things we are most interested in? GUI design has always had this battle between being easy for newbies and slick to advanced users. I would never want to see a feature added that caused a problem to either user type.
Maybe the implementation I suggested was a bit overkill. What about making it less obstrusive, then? Show a tooltip after keeping the cursor still over a picture for a second -or whatever the standard time for tooltips is across the desktop- and have it disappear as soon as you move out of that picture. Would that be acceptable? As for the discoverability, I don't even know where the on-line help is. In my humble opinion such a basic -and helpful- feature should be discoverable at first sight.
Created attachment 107051 [details] Here's a quick mockup, obviously open to suggestion.
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