On Friday 25 February 2011 23:31:09 calvin morrison wrote: > While it does not improve any of those areas you mentioned, usability > or speed, it does improve customizability which is important. > > I would not be in favor of this, except for that fact that it used to > exist. removing features is never a good thing! Regression of features > is one of the big reasons why Tim is having trouble with Qt4! :P > > It should be little work to do this, probably copy/paste and editing a > few functions. If it was a large undertaking i could understand > reasoning against it, but i do not see that being the case. I think it would be great to have this implemented as in KDE2. On the other hand I heared Apple has a patent on the panel icons enlarging on the mouse hove, that may be the reason why this feature was removed (as well as double-click by default which is patented by Microsoft)