Bug 437428

Summary: Disabling "Switch tabs on hover" does not have an effect in application launcher
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: g111
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: mikel5764, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.21.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: App Launcher Widget
App Launcher Settings

Description g111 2021-05-20 18:46:42 UTC 
SUMMARY
I have updated to kubuntu 21.04 and got the new application launcher configured. In the settings there is a checkbox "Switch tabs on hover". I want to switch the tabs by clicking on them, so I have disabled this option. Unfortunately it does not work.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open the settings of the application launcher
2. uncheck the option "Switch tabs on hover"
3. Klick "ok"
4. Hover on the tabs "Favorites", "All Applications", etc.

OBSERVED RESULT
The launcher switches to the hovered tab.

EXPECTED RESULT
It should not switch to the hovered tab.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-17-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2021-05-20 21:18:09 UTC 
Can you include a screenshot of the config option you're referring to?
Comment 2 g111 2021-05-21 08:01:36 UTC 
Created attachment 138634 [details]
App Launcher Widget
Comment 3 g111 2021-05-21 08:02:23 UTC 
Created attachment 138635 [details]
App Launcher Settings

This is a screenshot from the settings window..
Comment 4 Mikel Johnson 2021-05-27 20:40:10 UTC 
The option won't be present in 5.22
Comment 5 g111 2021-05-28 16:41:54 UTC 
Hello Mikel,

removing the checkbox from the settings is certainly a solution to make the behaviour consistent. But IMHO it is a pity that the user cannot turn off the on hover switching. (Even the "simple menu" widget can be configured this way. And the former launcher menu (that came with kubuntu 20.10) did offer this setting, too.

IMHO it is bad for the UX if something is switching automatically only because you move the mouse somewhere. In the case of the launcher menu you click on the icon in the taskbar to open the menu and have to move the mouse across the tabs to reach e.g. the favorites entries. If you move the mouse to slowly the favorites disappear and are replaced by the content of another tab where the mouse pointer accidentally hovers on.

For me it is not that very important, because I usually am using a hotkey to open the menu and prefer to navigate by cursor keys inside the menu. But when using the mouse it sometimes happend being annoyed by the auto switching.

(btw.: for navigating with the cursor keys it would be better if the favorite entries on the right side had the focus by default, so you can use cursor down to go through the entries. Currently you have to use cursor right first, otherwise you would switch the tabs again with cursor down. And the favorites are these entries that you usually want to reach most often. But this is something for another "bug" report.)

Kind regards
Gert
Comment 6 Mikel Johnson 2021-05-28 18:36:18 UTC 
The hover will always be off

Sorry for confusion.
Comment 7 g111 2021-05-29 09:54:10 UTC 
*lol*

Ok, thank you! This is perfect IMO.

Gert