[OSM-talk] 'Modeless' josm bugs/requests

[Ulf Lamping]

> 
> just a bit of a usability tweak. Could the metakey information
> (displayed in the status bar when mouse clicked on tool button) also
> be included in the tooltip (that appears on mouseover)
> 
> A user looking for a tool to use, looks at button, reads tooltip, does
> not see status bar related to the action of  the tool (which only
> appears if they finally choose a tool to use), and then may not notice
> the association of the appearance of this metakey information (at the
> bottom of the screen, far away from where they are looking) and the
> different choices of tool.
> 

FYI: To my experience, tooltips works much, much better than any statusbar information - users simply tend to ignore them especially for such usage hints.

As a rule of thumb: Put any "static information" (e.g. help, hotkeys, examples, ...) into the tooltip and any "dynamic information" (e.g. file size, currently selected item, ...) into the statusbar - that's how users typically expect the information - at least if they know/recognize the statusbar at all ;-)

Regards, ULFL

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