SUMMARY *** 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. *** 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.
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.
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 :)
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.
*** Bug 471055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 442108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/2128