Correct tooltip delay

[kerryarchibald]

Platform

• Web

Package version

• ...

Description

Tooltips have a 300ms delay. Some (or all?) tooltips should open without delay. Eg element-hq/element-web#26570 (comment)

[americanrefugee]

For any non-labeled buttons, the tooltip should show on hover after a 300ms delay.

For icons in the room header (public room, trusted, not trusted) and disabled buttons, the tooltip should show instantly.

[americanrefugee]

After further considering other use cases besides room header and details, here are more general rules-of-thumb:

DESKTOP

For non-labelled, interactive elements that do something: Show a tooltip on hover after a 300ms delay

• Any Icon-only buttons that performs some action

For non-labelled, interactive elements that do nothing: Show a tooltip on hover instantly

• Room decoration (public, encryption, trusted, not trusted, etc.)
• Status indicators
• Disabled buttons of any kind

Exceptions: Depends on the use case

• Facepile in a timeline on the right
  • On hover there is valuable information with a changing value ("Seen by X people"), therefore show the tooltip instantly
• Room description on room detail view
  • By default the room description is collapsed into an interactive component (essentially a big button). The summary itself is not technically a label, but the hover state on-rollover indicates that the element is interactive. So, there's no need to show any further tooltip at all.
  • Other examples we'll discover along the way :)

MOBILE

• IF possible, show a tooltip after long-pressing any non-labelled, interactive element

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Lemme know if you disagree with anything above

[robintown]

Related issue: #234