| Summary: | moving the mouse over a different application icon immediately changes the window list | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | René Fürst <rene> |
| Component: | Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager | Assignee: | Bharadwaj Raju <bharadwaj.raju777> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | admin, aleixpol, angeloborsoiross, bharadwaj.raju777, bugseforuns, daffamumtaz2001, guimarcalsilva, hsantanna, iodreamify, j.straight-kde, jackhill3103, johan.borglin.sjolen, kde-bugs, kroot001, kv, looriin9op, martinstolpe, micaeljarniac, nate, notmart, notuxius, nyanpasu64, plasma-bugs, postix, rapiteanu.catalin, rulatir, salvatorefiore1995, sunny.bed7466 |
| Priority: | HI | ||
| Version: | 5.5.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/6b0dd6514faad6d0803dc0d58ed93d995b82c237 | Version Fixed In: | 5.27 |
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Description
René Fürst
2016-02-02 22:41:09 UTC
can't exactly understand what you are descriving: do you mean when the mouse goes over a different taskbar entry it should wait a moment before switching the tooltip to the new taskbar entry? Exactly. That little delay would make selecting other windows much more comfortable. Maybe it would be useful if you could provide a little video. Thanks! Created attachment 97022 [details]
Step 1
Created attachment 97023 [details]
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In step1.png I want to move my mouse along the red line. As you can see, it crosses the blue rectangle, which contains Firefox. In step2.png you then see the result. As the mouse passed over the Firefox icon the tooltip has already switched and I cannot reach the window I want any more. Created attachment 102151 [details]
Patch for plasma-framework
Created attachment 102152 [details]
Patch for plasma-desktop
The two patches fix the issue but I had to touch plasma-framework. If you agree with all the changes then I'd be happy to find it merged. Otherwise you can at least use it as base for fixing the issue.
Thanks for you work. Would you mind putting these on Phabricator or ReviewBoard? They might get forgotten on Bugzilla (we don't really use it for patch review). Ping! René, we would still really appreciate your patch. Can you upload it to http://phabricator.kde.org/? Thanks! there is some delay on initial hover over app icon - same delay can be used for hovering over another app icons on the panel - for better consistency *** Bug 388744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Linus Shoravi has helpfully submitted the patches for Réne: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10304 https://phabricator.kde.org/D10305 *** Bug 389987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 427958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 428731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 430700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Nate, you marked my issue as a duplicate of this. This issue is 4 years old. Is it ever likely to be released? Once it's fixed, the fix will eventually be released, yes. Did I misunderstand the above comments from 2 years ago indicating that a patch had been submitted? Yes they were, but they were never merged because they did not work quite right and the original author never showed up to help revise them. René, if you're still around, please feel free to re-submit your patches as merge requests at invent.kde.org/ Ah, I see. Thanks. *** Bug 432612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Number of duplicates piling up; raising priority. *** Bug 432705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #24) > Number of duplicates piling up; raising priority. Is it so hard to fix? I have to use latte-dock 9.11 which has the proper behavior, but it's more CPU hungry. Yes, it requires quite a lot of work. In general anything not already fixed is either challenging to do, or evidence that the dev team is currently overloaded. *** Bug 440105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** These hundred-times-a-day ergonomy-wrecking annoyances should be treated with WAY UP THE TOP priority. Like 99% issues are less important than a constantly, relentlessly annoying, focus-destroying glitch in the first-contact UI through which users interact with Basically Everything. If the team is overloaded fixing less important issues, then the solution is simple: STOP working on less important issues, FIX THIS ONE, and THEN resume working on less important issues. *** Bug 443176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/342 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/585 (In reply to Szczepan Hołyszewski from comment #29) > If the team is overloaded fixing less important issues, then the solution is > simple: STOP working on less important issues, FIX THIS ONE, and THEN resume > working on less important issues. Remember that "the team" is just volunteers who do this in their free time. There is no management dictating what volunteers spend their time on. *** Bug 448399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Better solution, using triangle mouse filtering https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832 (In reply to Bharadwaj Raju from comment #35) > Better solution, using triangle mouse filtering > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832 Could you explain the idea? *** Bug 449905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 451397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** On https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451397 I'm also reporting the issue where, if a window is playing audio, hovering over the mute button also makes the popup disappear. I'm mentioning that here because that issue was closed, and I didn't want that to get lost. *** Bug 458460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Thank you Nate, for directing my bug to this one. I saw that there has been a suggested fix based on "triangle mouse filtering". Such a solution seems to previously have been implemented for something else, but the other way around. So at least the technique as named seems legitimate. https://phabricator.kde.org/D13192 Unfortunately Bharadwaj seems to have abandoned their fix. (In reply to Johan Sjölén from comment #41) > Unfortunately Bharadwaj seems to have abandoned their fix. Hi. I have not abandoned my fix. It still works and is ready to merge. I am just waiting for approval, since there are some concerns with whether this code can or should be shared with the Kickoff implementation. (In reply to Johan Sjölén from comment #41) > Unfortunately Bharadwaj seems to have abandoned their fix. I suppose if you're looking at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832, it might appear "abandoned" since there is only one code review comment on the whole thread. Most of the discussion is in the corresponding Plasma Frameworks MR here: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/442. Please follow that for progress. (In reply to Bharadwaj Raju from comment #43) > I suppose if you're looking at > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832, it might > appear "abandoned" since there is only one code review comment on the whole > thread. Most of the discussion is in the corresponding Plasma Frameworks MR > here: > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/442. > Please follow that for progress. Last comment there was a month ago with no response from Davide. I'm not a regular with KDE MRs. What is the expected response times from people? Is a month usual? (In reply to Bharadwaj Raju from comment #43) > (In reply to Johan Sjölén from comment #41) > > Unfortunately Bharadwaj seems to have abandoned their fix. > > I suppose if you're looking at > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832, it might > appear "abandoned" since there is only one code review comment on the whole > thread. Most of the discussion is in the corresponding Plasma Frameworks MR > here: > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/442. > Please follow that for progress. Hi Bharadwaj! I saw that your more generalized PR was merged, awesome job :-). Do you happen to know whether this ticket should be considered fixed? Hi. My MR extracting the Kickoff mouse filter into a library was merged, but I'm afraid the application of it to the task manager still has problems which I need to sort out. See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1231. This bug isn't fixed yet, I'm sorry. (In reply to Bharadwaj Raju from comment #35) > Better solution, using triangle mouse filtering > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/832 Could you please explain this idea? I don't understand what "triangle mouse filtering" _is_, but as a solution to a problem that could be solved with a simple debounce, it sure _sounds_ like Spaceballs teleportation. > Could you please explain this idea? I don't understand what "triangle mouse filtering" _is_, but as a solution to a problem that could be solved with a simple debounce, it sure _sounds_ like Spaceballs teleportation. It's pretty straightforward in theory. Read https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown. It's already used in practice in Kickoff's sidebar, and it works well there. The problems are all with the practical difficulty of getting it to work in a panel context with dynamically-sized and -positioned tooltips as the targets. I made an MR with a debounce solution long ago — I think it's linked somewhere here even — but it was rejected because it makes all tooltips noticeably slower for any debounce length which effectively filters out the bad cases. At any rate, I believe I've solved those remaining problems as well, and we should be closer to a merged solution. Fixed in master and 5.27 branch. I expect the fix will be there in the 5.27.1 release. 5.27 hasn't been tarred yet, so it'll be fixed in 5.27.0, in fact! Git commit 7f1233a4ad50d70af9cbc39ff957a7cb1c47ed9b by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 08/02/2023 at 17:55. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'master'. applets/taskmanager: Triangle mouse filtering, with the component this time Use the triangle mouse filter component from Plasma Workspace. Related: bug 347041 M +3 -0 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml M +81 -36 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/7f1233a4ad50d70af9cbc39ff957a7cb1c47ed9b Git commit 6b0dd6514faad6d0803dc0d58ed93d995b82c237 by Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 08/02/2023 at 17:57. Pushed by bharadwaj-raju into branch 'Plasma/5.27'. applets/taskmanager: Triangle mouse filtering, with the component this time Use the triangle mouse filter component from Plasma Workspace. Related: bug 347041 (cherry picked from commit 7f1233a4ad50d70af9cbc39ff957a7cb1c47ed9b) M +3 -0 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml M +81 -36 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/commit/6b0dd6514faad6d0803dc0d58ed93d995b82c237 |