Bug 431901

Summary: Accidental tab switching with new Kickoff
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Iyán Méndez Veiga <me>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff)Assignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, nate, norbert, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 5.20.90   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/53b5a06ea8578cabee2aff39704c8ef761167fb3 Version Fixed In: 5.21

Description Iyán Méndez Veiga 2021-01-21 21:43:01 UTC 
SUMMARY

I like the new Kickoff but I think there is some issue with the favorites. By default, "switch tabs on hover" is enabled and I find myself switching to Places tabs by mistake when moving the mouse to items at the end of the favorite list.

I kind of solve this by disabling that option. But still, some times, if I don't move the mouse fast enough, I open by mistake a application category before reaching the favorites part.

I couldn't find an easy way to fix that. Maybe it would be possible to include another option to disable the "change on hover" within a tab?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.9-arch1-1
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-01-22 14:58:34 UTC 
Confirmed; this happens to me too, periodically.

IMO this option should be off by default. It is inherited from the old Kickoff where I think it made more sense to have on by default, but with the new one, less so.
Comment 2 Mikel Johnson 2021-01-22 20:14:23 UTC 
If other people complain this week, then sure
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-01-22 20:45:32 UTC 
To be fair, someone (Kai) already did last week or so. :)
Comment 4 Mikel Johnson 2021-01-27 22:08:41 UTC 
*** Bug 432204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Mikel Johnson 2021-01-27 22:10:37 UTC 
yep got another bug report should probably change the default (by creating a new config value since UX is so different the old setting doesn't really apply)
Comment 6 Mikel Johnson 2021-01-29 10:23:21 UTC 
Fixed by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/331