Green header = Unread, new message.
The green dot indicates that there are unread messages in the topic.
The @ symbol indicates that you were mentioned in the post (or topic, depending on if the topic is "closed")
And the Star is the "subscribe" function. It's like watchlisting, but for single topics.
As far as tooltips go, they existed in earlier versions but they were incredibly annoying so they were removed.
On Jul 14, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:51:58 +0200, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
OK. First, looks pretty good. Nice work! I have just one comment: There are quite a lot of symbols with not much explanation. What's the difference between the conversation having a star on it, having a dot above the collapse arrow, and having an @ symbol on it? Also, why are some usernames green and others gray?
I've had the same impression as Tyler; there's a lot of noisy symbols there with no explanation. It would be bearable is they had tips displayed on hover (using the "title" HTML attribute), but still quite annoying.
Less icons, please? Feel free to replace them with some text :)
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