[Thunar-dev] (small?) Feature request

[Christian Göbel]

The danger with tooltips is that they could get rather large, depending
on the displayed information.
The statusbar is more innocent - detailed information can easily be 
ignored if you are not interested in. The statusbar is out of your way 
and you have even the choice not to show the statusbar.


Aaron wrote:
> On 4/13/06, Rodrigo Coacci <rcoacci at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I also think that the best options are tooltips (preferably with a sane
>> timer) or toolbar info. But I tend to prefer the tooltip since (I think) it
>> won´t clutter the toolbar and (maybe?) won´t add extra stat every time we
>> select a file, what may not be desirable....
> 
> i like tooltips too, expescially the ones in konqueror. maily because
> they have a slightly bigger thumbnail show up in it. what if theres
> two tooltips, one after a short timer, for the basic imformation, then
> after a bit longer, a more advanced and detailed one pops up? although
> that could be confusing, and probably not used, does anyone like the
> idea?