Problem description: When a user mouses over one of the icons, it is outlined with a faded green. After they've selected a component, however, and moved the mouse away, the description stays, but the faded green outline goes away. Suggestion: keep the faded green outline, perhaps changing the color to a blue to indicate it's been selected. In the same vein, if the user selects one, then mouses over another icon, the description should update to the newly moused-over icon, but return to the selected icon after the mouse leaves the icon area. You could also throw in a description-border color change. Minor usability suggestions, take 'em or leave 'em.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/website/commit/?id=349ec9598f0d2f0bf42e4d231554903df6f6f2bc I like the result, thank you for explaining a detailed user interaction. I did not implement "You could also throw in a description-border color change." because I was not sure when and how to do that.
My description border change idea was probably a little much. It's sometimes difficult to fully visualize ideas without interaction. I'd say that the mouse over behavior now is good: it's obvious what I've selected, and if I mouse over another option it's obvious that it relates what I've just moused over.