Better feedback when hovering labels

[Incogdino]

Please confirm that you have searched existing issues in the repo

Yes, I have searched the existing issues

Any related issues?

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What is the area that this feature belongs to?

Reader Usability

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The current label for image annotations may not provide sufficient feedback to the user to indicate that it is a popup. When hovering over the annotation, the cursor does not change. An example is shown below:

Screen.Recording.2025-01-26.230451.mp4

Readers may be left unknown if there is no indication of a popover within the annotated image.

Describe the solution you'd like

Changing the cursor to a pointer when hovering over a label or anything within an Annotate Point.

Something like this should improve user experience when creating an annotated image.

20250126-1515-13.5793438.mp4

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

Would love to get any feedback on this or any potential implications this might cause!

[lhw-1]

I think in general, when the cursor changes to a pointer, I would expect the UI component to be clickable (and it would do something on click).

Point taken though, I wonder if there are other alternatives we could look into for not just annotations, but similar components? E.g. changing the cursor to a question mark on hover? (Wouldn't be my first choice either, just an example.)

[damithc]

Elsewhere in MarkBind, the convention is, dotted underline indicates the presence of a pop-up that appears on hover (i.e., no need to click) while a dashed underline indicates a pop-up that requires clicking to be revealed.
You can see an example in the landing page https://markbind.org

[lhw-1]

My mistake, I realized that this is a popover and not a tooltip (i.e. it requires a click). We should follow the current conventions as mentioned by @damithc and change the labels to dashed underlined text & change the cursor to a pointer on hover.

[Incogdino]

My mistake, I realized that this is a popover and not a tooltip (i.e. it requires a click). We should follow the current conventions as mentioned by @damithc and change the labels to dashed underlined text & change the cursor to a pointer on hover.

In my opinion, it is more feasible to add show the intention with a cursor instead of a dasshed underlined especially in the case of image annotations.

20250217-0810-02.5895481.mp4

The case for dashed underline seems to be more appropriate if the target is going to be only text.