Bug 452636

Summary: Humble request to bring back the option to turn off "activate on hover" for sidebar categories
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: TONKAHANAH <u83rmensch>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: 4wy78uwh, bugseforuns, fuzzy987321, gantetsu.kenshin, kmcwilliampublic, mail, mikel5764, nate, nikolakocicbz, noahadvs, witchhunterpro
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.25.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/05a4d828fee1055d6674d0655462acc8b22fba28 Version Fixed In: 6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description TONKAHANAH 2022-04-15 04:18:32 UTC 
SUMMARY
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Please bring back the option to turn off "switch on hover" on the kickoff menu. The old menu had this option and it was always my go to cuz it drives me nuts when things change with me activating said change. I found a discussion between the devs regarding this like a year ago and it seems you were trying to solve an issue of a slow UI so I want to my request very clear. Im not having any specific issues or experiencing anything/broken not working. The "change on hover" works as intended and is plenty snapy, I just dont like it at all. I very much dislike having anything change via hovering my mouse over it, I'd like it to only change when I actually activate a button. I hope its not a lot to ask cuz I wouldnt ask if I knew it was a big request but I figure it doenst hurt to put the request up anyway.

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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  click the kickoff icon in default panel
2.  hover your mouse over the different application categories 


OBSERVED RESULT
watch as the right side child menu changes from category to category without me having to click anything to make that change happen. 

EXPECTED RESULT
1. click the kickoff icon in the default panel 
2. move my mouse to my desired category all the while, no changes to the menu have occured yet
3. click on the software category to select it and see the child menu of said category change to the list of applications within that category. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Kernel: 5.17.1-arch1-1 
Resolution: 3840x2160, 3840x2160 
DE: Plasma 5.24.4 
WM: KWin 
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

this option was in the old one,  would just be nice to have it back cuz I like it that way, nothing is broken, just not to my liking and it cant hurt to ask to have it back.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-04-18 16:06:55 UTC 
Answering my own question of "why?:

> I just dont like it at all. I very much dislike having anything change via hovering my mouse over it,
> I'd like it to only change when I actually activate a button. 

> cuz I like it that way, nothing is broken, just not to my liking and it cant hurt to ask to have it back.
Comment 2 fuzzy987321 2022-10-03 01:28:33 UTC 
I find the fact that the categories switch on mouseover very annoying, to the point where I just can't use the Kickoff menu. I just end up trying to click something in my favorites while the category changes to something else because I moved my mouse over it too slowly... It would be nice if it was possible to disable this behavior in the configuration. To have to actually click on the categories to switch between them.

Thanks for your work and consideration :)
Comment 3 fuzzy987321 2022-10-03 12:30:08 UTC 
The downstream "Simple Kickoff" added this option in this commit: https://github.com/HimDek/Simple-Kickoff-for-Plasma/commit/f9ea591e8e88057d6a00ede757f25fb2fcd7a8ed

Should be pretty simple to adapt this to upstream Kickoff also.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2023-07-24 23:46:19 UTC 
*** Bug 471055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-09-12 19:21:53 UTC 
*** Bug 442108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2024-03-18 20:58:30 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2128
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2024-12-05 09:07:55 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2658
Comment 8 Noah Davis 2024-12-05 11:00:11 UTC 
Git commit 05a4d828fee1055d6674d0655462acc8b22fba28 by Noah Davis.
Committed on 05/12/2024 at 10:49.
Pushed by ndavis into branch 'master'.

Kickoff: Add a setting to enable selecting categories on hover
Related: bug 426015, bug 483205

M  +4    -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/config/main.xml
M  +6    -7    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/AbstractKickoffItemDelegate.qml
M  +10   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ApplicationsPage.qml
M  +6    -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml
M  +2    -2    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffGridView.qml
M  +2    -2    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffListView.qml
M  +10   -0    applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/PlacesPage.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/05a4d828fee1055d6674d0655462acc8b22fba28