On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 01:53 +0300, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: > 1. how I can to hover using touch screen?
You may not be able to (I don't know if X on your touch screen would emit proximity events). In that case, those UIs that require hovering may indeed not be adequate for your touch screen. Touch screens and mice have very different feels; you can't just use any widget and expect that it will work correctly on both types. > 2. why I (now as desktop user) should to hover anything "just in case"? You shouldn't have to. If you need to scrape all the widgets just to find functionality, the design is indeed broken. What the appear-on-hover icons do is to present casually useful actions, not vital ones which should be close at hand. They are intended to be, "by the way, you can also do this here", not the primary way of doing things. Think of the "+" icons that appear on YouTube's thumbnails so that you can add videos to your playlist (and in a similar way, the "X" icons that appear in thumbnails already in the playlist so you can remove them). You wouldn't want those icons to show up all the time; showing them when you hover the thumbnail is much better. And the icons are not the only way of performing their actions; you can go to the pages for the videos and find a "remove this" or "add to playlist" command in there - it just takes longer. Federico _______________________________________________ usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
