Bug 431585

Summary:	"Focus follows mouse" mode is annoying when applied to Plasma applets' pop-ups due to close-on-focus-loss behavior
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Linus Kardell <linus.kardell>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	5.20.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Linus Kardell 2021-01-14 08:20:55 UTC

SUMMARY
Panel menus, (e.g. kickoff menu, extended systray, notifications list, updater applet) closes as soon as they lose focus. This works fine when using "Click for focus", but if you use "Focus follows mouse", this means the menus are closed just by moving the mouse pointer outside them. They should only close when clicking outside them (similar to how hovering over a window moves the focus to it, but you have to click it to move it to the foreground).

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20201221
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.9.14-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 31.3 Gibyte of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-01-14 22:44:19 UTC

These applets close when they lose focus, which means using focus-follows-mouse causes this behavior. Mouse the mouse outside the popup -> it loses focus -> it closes.

This is a tricky problem to solve.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-03-10 02:13:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363897 ***

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-03-10 22:23:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336134 ***

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-03-11 18:32:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363897 ***

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-03-11 18:37:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336285 ***