There is a delay on hover to display the items. I feel it is best to make it instant. No delay on mouse hover in Kickoff. When it is not, it gives the impression that there could be something wrong with the system.
+1
I've had this on my system for a while. I did find myself switching to "computer" as I moved up to select an entry. Could definitely be reduced though.
FWIW it's currently 250ms (clickTimer in FullRepresentation.qml)
Yeah, people erroneously see this as a performance problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7v8frc/kde_this_week_in_usability_productivity_part_4/dtrjvn2/ Regardless of the merits of the feature itself, we might consider changing it just to eliminate that potential source of confusion and frustration. We don't want to make ourselves look bad here.
Submitted a patch for this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11848
Git commit 62f92fd822efb059a07dd77c93158ecba73d1ced by Eike Hein. Committed on 01/06/2018 at 18:56. Pushed by hein into branch 'master'. Implement a triangle filter for mouse events on the Kickoff tabbar Summary: D11848 started out with the aim to remove the delay on Kickoff tab switching, but this proved contentious because it can cause user frustration over accidental tab switching when moving from the tab bar to the list view at angle, grazing another tab. This patch implements a triangle filter to get the best of both worlds. When the mouse motion vector is within the triangle from the vector starting coordinate pair to the relevant tab bar corners, the original 250ms delay remains in use. When the vector is outside the triangle, tabs are switched immediately - improving even over the 50ms delay proposed in D11848. Care is taken so that tab switching is always immediate when the tab bar is freshly entered, e.g. moving from the panel to Kickoff. As a small advantage this removes a MouseArea item from each tab button. Reviewers: ngraham, davidedmundson, rkflx, cfeck Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13192 M +131 -10 applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml M +0 -12 applets/kickoff/package/contents/ui/KickoffButton.qml https://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/62f92fd822efb059a07dd77c93158ecba73d1ced
This seems not to work here on 18.08.0: http://sendvid.com/chxybyml
(In reply to Matthias from comment #7) > This seems not to work here on 18.08.0: > > http://sendvid.com/chxybyml 18.08.0 is the version of KDE Applications, not KDE Plasma. I wouldn't expect you to see this in action because it's been fixed in Plasma 5.14.0, which hasn't been released yet. See the "Version Fixed In:" field.