item detail (i.e. volume) hard to interact with
Bug #688975 reported by
cde
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #552920: Moving diagonally from narrow menu title often opens adjacent menu.
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Ayatana Design |
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Indicator Applet |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
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Bug Description
In indicator-applet (0.4.6 and earlier), clicking the volume icon then moving the mouse (diagonally) to interact with the volume level typically leads to deselecting the volume icon and moving to the envelope icon, forcing the user to retreat, and make conscious & deliberate vertical-
Expected behaviour - after clicking the volume icon, volume detail should remain visible. Selecting adjacent indicator icons could be achieved by an extra click, which would be consistent with how the user would interact with the date or session applet in the same region of the default panel. Alternatively a brief "hover" could be required to activate adjacent applet icons.
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I agree that there is a problem with the deselection of applets as the user attempts to interact with the dropdown menu, and that there is an inconsistency in the user experience with regard to the behaviour of these applets when the calendar applet is taken into consideration.
When reproducing this bug, I also noticed that when moving from one applet to the next, the dropdown menu for the next applet would appear, but when the calendar applet was moused over, any subsequent mousing over of an applet no longer results in the appearance of the dropdown menu.
I think this is a larger problem in the behaviour of the indicator applets, and of the panel in general which the Ayatana Design team should look at, and given the scope of this problem, this is not a valid papercut.