Rather than having to click the eye icon to get info about an object, there should be a WoW style popup with compact information about the item, object, character that appears below and to the side of the mouse, which it will follow while the mouse is over the item. This popup would of course be contextual and work with items in your inventory, in the buy/sell/trade windows, for tria on the ground (just shows how much is in the pile), skills in the skill/training window (shows a short description of what the skill does), NPC\'s, monsters, and players (shows short description plus HP plus two lines, \"This person is a merchant.\" and \"This person is a trainer.\" on separate lines at the bottom of the info popup), and various items in the character creation screens, spells, runes, unlabeled buttons in the UI (short explanation perhaps). The popup would appear immediately on mouseover for items in inventory or in buy/sell/trade lists and also for skills in the skill window (short description should pop up), and delayed (with user adjustable delay time) for objects, players, and NPC\'s in world.
I posted this wishlist item on the bugtracker as well and you can view that here:
http://planeshift.oodlz.com/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=846&pos=1
