#4986 NORM Future : Secondary palette of a button, switches the instant you move cursor to neighbouring button

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#4986: Secondary palette of a button, switches the instant you move cursor to
neighbouring button
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  Reporter:  HoboPrimate  |       Owner:  marco         
      Type:  defect       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  sugar        |     Version:                
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0            |    Blocking:                
 Blockedby:               |  
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Changes (by Eben):

 * cc: rwh (added)
  * component:  interface-design => sugar


Comment:

 I fully concur with you on this.  In fact, this was the original spec, and
 was indeed implemented to begin with.  The problem turned up in light of
 "floating palettes" (palettes for icons in freeform views such as the home
 screens) which don't have a natural linear ordering.  For these, the
 secondary palettes could cover a large number of the other icons which one
 might wish to "scrub over." This, in turn, actually made it difficult to
 ''hide'' the palette on these screens when they were abundant with icons.

 We decided that it would make sense to scrub only the primary palettes on
 these screens, as it's certainly beneficial to be able to quickly peek at
 the names of XOs, the titles of activities, etc.  In these views the
 secondary palettes are less meaningful up front since they remain the same
 for most every icon in the view (though this may not always be the case,
 admittedly).  In order to surmount the usability problems in these views,
 we opted to make scrubbing apply only to primary palettes in general.

 This was a quick fix, whereas the correct and desired solution is to
 differentiate the "anchored" (in a toolbar, tray, frame, etc -- anytime
 the icon gets a black hover background) from the "floating", and manage
 the scrubbing behaviors accordingly.

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