Bug 376191

Summary:	Top menubar is unusable with "focus follows mouse"
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kded-appmenu	Reporter:	Marco Silva <marco_silva85>
Component:	top menubar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marco Silva 2017-02-08 17:35:34 UTC

With an environment where a user has the application Menu on top of the screen as a global menu, if the setting "focus follows mouse" is active, then the menu becomes jarring to use.
This happens for example if several applications are opened and the one in the background has its window a bit higher than the current active application - when the user wants to select an item of the menu of the current active application, and goes "up" with the mouse, the mouse will hover by the application behind and the menu changes (or disappears if that app has none), making its use impossible in this case.

One cannot use this new menu "style" with applications higher than the current one, unless he always moves higher the current application window in relation to the others.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-02-08 17:38:36 UTC

Well, it's in the nature of focus follows mouse that once you hover another window it will get focus.

Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2017-02-08 17:46:42 UTC

There's the possibility to add a delay till the window gets focus. I suggest to use that and set it to a sensible value which works for you.