On Nov 6, 2005, at 7:50 PM, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 15:34 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
failing to read the tooltip
Evidently a significant proportion of users do not hover over the widget long enough to see/read the tooltip.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's a problem because the consequences of toggling the control are not otherwise immediately apparent.
Well, what I've seen in a lot of programs depends on if we can determine this is a cause for confusion. If we can detect the state at runtime, popping up a warning dialog with a "don't show me this again" checkbox is one good solution. For this case, we could detect things either when the button was toggled, or after a drag with the situation that may be confusing. It would, of course, be a balance between how many users would be saved from themselves versus how many other users would be unnecessarily annoyed by it.