Just as a question which, hopefully, ought to highlight the difficulty of making "better icons" which would negate the need for tooltips...
How will you represent the information "This file is under revision control and has been locally modified but not added staged for commit"? This is a reasonable state for a file to be in if it is under git revision control. Also, after you've come up with an answer for your particular pet locale, try again to make an icon which is pan-culturally similarly "intuitive". Nautilus currently has sixteen icons which a person can, by hand, add to their icons. I can barely remember the icons for the time it takes me to glance back to this browser window. Yes the icons are poor, but that's not all the issue at hand. If icons should always be perfect, then the logical conclusion would be to remove all toolbar modes but "icons only" and "fix the icons" -- most people would spend a lot of time hovering their mouse over the toolbar icons to try and learn what the icons mean, by using the helpful (and fortunately generally present) tooltips. Remember, this is not a request to replace information, currently represented by icons, by text; but rather a request to make the icons discoverable. Discoverability ought to be a goal of any desktop environment, but particularly Ubuntu which keeps touting "Linux For Human Beings". If it helps hammer the point home, consider point 3 of the Ubuntu philosophy: Every computer user should be given every opportunity to use software, even if they work under a disability. If Ubuntu has a visually rich, information dense, iconic display, then my own inability to think in pictures or spatially should count as a disability under that point, and you should be striving to ensure that people like me can discover the meanings in the UI and thus become productive with the software. -- Emblems should have tooltips https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10838 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
