Comment 4 for bug 1166811

On Apr 09, 2013, at 08:11 PM, Robert Bruce Park wrote:

>Barry, please pay a little bit more attention to where you're clicking.
>I think you'll find that it's not "magic whitespace" but really you can
>click almost anywhere in the message which causes it to expand, showing
>replies, reply text box, retweet button, etc. Exceptions to "almost
>anywhere" include: clicking on the avatar at left will open a browser
>displaying that tweet/fb post, or clicking on an underlined link will
>open that link in a browser. But other than that, you should be able to
>click on the message body, the message title, or the margins, and have
>the message expand and the retweet icon become visible.

Ah. There's no visual indication about any of these actions except clicking
on a link to open the link (which agreed is very natural). I guess you can
learn by experimentation and random clicking, if you think to do so. Maybe
I'm in the minority, but the correlation between click and action is just not
very obvious.

>I also agree that we need a better icon for the RT. The curved arrow
>doesn't really indicate what it is that it does. My first impression of
>that icon was 'open in browser' (because in my mind an arrow pointing
>forward-but-slightly-up means "enlarge" or "open in a larger thing") so
>when I clicked on it I was surprised to find a retweet took place.

Right, and because there's no confirmation, I may end up retweeting things I
didn't expect to.

>Ken, maybe instead of allowing clicking anywhere to expand, we put some
>kind of "downward chevron" icon on an explicit button that makes
>everything expand. Like this:
>
>http://cdn3.iconfinder.com/data/icons/minicons-ultimate-pack-arrows/100
>/chevron-double-bold-4-01-128.png

Some kind of reveal icon would be helpful I think.