Bug 376180

Summary: Add support for switching between global menus without closing and reopening
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Janek Bevendorff <kde>
Component: Global Menu widgetAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.8.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Janek Bevendorff 2017-02-08 13:25:06 UTC
The new global application menu does not allow easy switching of (sub)menus.

Expected behavior:
When I open a menu (e.g. File), the user should be able to switch to the next one (e.g. Edit) simply by moving the mouse.

Current behavior:
The first menu must be closed explicitly by clicking somewhere else before the user can switch to another menu.

Motivation:
It happens very often that I don't quite remember which application menu a certain action was in, that the application is new to me and I want to explore the menu or that I accidentally opened the wrong one.
The easiest way to quickly browse through different (traditional) menus is to simply move the mouse to the next menu.
With the new global application menu, this isn't possible which makes the global menu extremely tedious to use.
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-02-08 13:46:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375535 ***