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Re: Unity and tooltips

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From: Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:57:23 +0000
Cc: ayatana-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ayatana List <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 17/10/10 11:39, Vishnoo wrote:
> Is there a reason Unity's Launcher has tooltips for applications and
> places? [While Application icons could be considered as unrecognizable,
> Places icons are our custom icons so they should atleast be a bit
> recognizable.Still not sure how these tooltips are more important...]

We give the name of the application because, if you don't know the icon,
there's absolutely no way to know what it is otherwise. We dropped
tooltips elsewhere because they were by-and-large trying to convey
overly-detailed information.

Mark

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Unity and tooltips
From: Vishnoo, 2010-10-17