From: Gregory F. M. <ma...@gf...> - 2004-03-18 18:40:16
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On Mar 18, 2004, Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> wrote: |While I agree in general with this principle, the buddy list tooltips |are a _huge_ usability win in many instances, and in the common case of Ethan, I clearly am missing something - I've heard several times from several people how valuable the BLT (Buddy List Tooltips) are, but I am having a hard time grappling with why they are SO valuable. Can you possibly provide some insight? Perhaps describing how you use them (that I'm obviously not doing)? What would you loose if they were a popup window instead, or gone entirely? |local access (I personally use remote X rather more often than I would |like to admit, but that is not a common usage pattern these days) it |just isn't an efficiency concern. Well, on my P-166 it is a really big efficiency concern. So is mozilla for that matter. It used to be that linux was great to run on older hardware, but this has become somewhat of a misnomer these days (ah, the good old days of ctwm and netscape -owncmap! :-)). Thanks, /greg -- Gregory F. March -=- http://www.gfm.net:81/~march -=- AIM:GfmNet |