I think that a possible improvement to these toggle buttons which apparently do nothing, would be to show a message in the bottom bar (what's the name of it?). This would offer more information to users who don't know the use of the button (even if they can get the information reading the tooltip, this would be a small improvement for them) and it wouldn't get in the middle of users who already know what the button does. Plus, it looks to me like something easy to implement.
miz.
On 11/7/05, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> wrote:
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.
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