Always show icon tooltips

Always show icon tooltips

George Ander (guest) 06 Feb 2012 15:27

The name of an icon can be seen when it's on the IconSeeker, or when the mouse curser is hovering over it.
Organizing documents in docks, I'd like to see the document names (or the icon names) of all members of a dock at one sight.

This feature that is probably easy to implement would push open doors to new fields of application.

Re: Always show icon tooltips

coderOmega 07 Feb 2012 18:23

displaying all the names at once can possibly cause problems.
If there are many icons in a ring, the names will most likely be on top of each other, therefore being unreadable.
Plus the texts themselves would block the view to the icon making it impossible to click it.

George Ander (guest) 08 Feb 2012 12:40

From all docks I have tested, SliderDock was the only one that suits my professional needs more or less, and I've tested many of them. Please note that I'm not nagging about - I'm trying to get the best I've found improved further.

Causes problems? Possibly, yes. Depends on how one uses SliderDock. As an optional feature (or even a per-ring option, or on a hotkey, …) it won't bother those who use rings crowded to the extreme.

People in forums still keep complaining about Windows 7, because there's not decent way of organizing the most used documents anymore. On Windows XP one could arrange the icon in any folder freely like snippets on a desk. SliderDock will be an attractive solution to everyone who needs to work with documents effeciently, once an 'always show tooltips' option is available.

Please take a look at the overlay picture on mediafire.com in the folder /i/?3sts938f94jow0x
The mouse cursor has always entered the the icon from the top right. Looks tidy to me.

coderOmega 08 Feb 2012 15:11

I think I'll try to add it as a hotkey feature.
But it will be for the v1.23 release.

George Ander (guest) 09 Feb 2012 10:55

Great! I appreciate your consideration.

Let me add some compliments about your work: Here's some of the current features I appreciate the most:
Adjustable ring size and icon size.
The two-dimensional design - multiple, named rings to cycle through.
The convenient information provided while navigating in SliderDock. Such as the title of the current ring popping up and fading out.
Shortcut keys!
Shortcut keys without printable character. I use Ctrl and Alt for cycling through the rings.
Ease of use with drag and drop for adding icons and changing icons order.
High performance and small footprint.
The most toughtful design I've found amongst docks - very clearly laid out and easy to focus.

Your software helps me to do my work more efficiently. I'm recommending it to my colleagues at work, even more emphatically with its increasing versatility I hope to find in v.1.23.

coderOmega 11 Feb 2012 00:15

I'm glad that you find it useful.