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)