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Bug 729074 - Moving the mouse over the address area should provida visual feedback
Moving the mouse over the address area should provida visual feedback
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Controls
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Other Linux
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 755518
 
 
Reported: 2014-04-27 21:18 UTC by Georges Basile Stavracas Neto
Modified: 2017-03-01 21:36 UTC
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Description Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2014-04-27 21:18:52 UTC 
Actually, moving the mouse over the address area gives absolutely no visual clue that a click shows the address bar. This is a big flaw on the discoversability of the address entry bar.

We should design a way to inform users that clicking the address area shows the address entry bar.

Tentative solution: on mouse hovering, show an almost transparent adress entry bar below the headerbar title and subtitle.
Comment 1 Yosef Or Boczko 2014-04-27 22:30:50 UTC 
This isn't right. in the start of the subtitle (the url) we added an arrow
character (▾) which needs to indicate to the user on more information on
click.

I'm agree we wants to find a better way to say this to the user.

About your idea - what happen when the user wants to drad'n'drop the window,
or un/maximize it?
Comment 2 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2014-04-27 22:33:51 UTC 
Oh yes, I forgot to mention.

I think that the address entry should only be focused on the mouse click *release* event, so if the user clicks and moves the window around, the address bar won't be focused.
Comment 3 Yosef Or Boczko 2014-04-27 22:37:45 UTC 
I think we does it right now (look on the code).

As I understand your idea, „almost transparent adress entry bar” - what this
mean? if you have the entry, you can't drag'n'drop the window. if you have it,
you can.
Comment 4 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2014-04-27 22:48:26 UTC 
I don't know if it's possible with the current Gtk+ widgets, but I thought a good behaviour would be:

1) A website is loaded -> headerbar show the title and subtitle)
2) The user moves the mouse over the title -> the title and subtitle are still shown, but an *almost* transparent address entry is shown below the title. This should be very hard to implement actually.