Bug 460286 - Ability to only show tooltips when left-clicking a grouped task
Summary: Ability to only show tooltips when left-clicking a grouped task
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 450798
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git-stable-Plasma/5.26
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2022-10-12 09:20 UTC by avlas
Modified: 2022-11-05 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description avlas 2022-10-12 09:20:40 UTC
SUMMARY

I want a way to show the tooltip mode only on left click, not on the tooltip mode itself when my mouse happens to be on top of an app. For my workflow (do not really like tooltips much) I find the emergence of the tooltip noisy, but I find it useful for grouped windows of a same application, to select one of them and prefer that to alternative options. 

Also, if tooltip mode is active and it is used on left click, frequently the two interfere and by the time the click happens it frequently makes the tooltip disappear when the intended behavior is quite the opposite.

I would fix this by disabling the tooltip in configuration. However, if I disable the tooltip, I cannot activate the tooltip mode on left click, and frankly, in my opinion that doesn't make much sense, as these two should be independent.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Config tooltip "on" and activate the tooltip on "left click"
2. Frequently, the left click makes the tooltip disappear instead of appear, and this is dependent to the timing of tooltip appearance, which is hard to control in terms of usability
3. It is impossible to disable tooltip while keeping the activation of the tooltip mode on "left click"

EXPECTED RESULT

Points 2 and 3 above would be "fixed" if the activation of the tooltip mode on "left click" would be allowed independently of whether tooltip itself is enabled or not.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.26
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-52-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20KHCTO1WW
System Version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-10-12 19:01:36 UTC
Yeah, these settings are somewhat contradictory at the moment.

I would propose removing the "Show Tooltips" setting and instead making the Task manager simply follow the systemwide setting for whether to show tooltips or not. It's already a local override of the global setting which is silly. Then, regardless of what the systemwide setting is, you can force tooltips to appear on click.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-11-05 20:18:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450798 ***