Icons in taskbar (upper right) and right click problem

[lokz]

When you "right click" on most of icons in upper right task bar, for example Skype or language selector or "shut down", menu opens, but you cannot select option with "left click".

It is not consistent with rest of the OS, so please make it right:

1. Enable left click, when right click open menu
2. Disable right click on taskbar items (icons)

Using Freya Beta1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.3
Package: elementary-desktop 1.350+394~ubuntu0.3.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Tue Sep 9 11:51:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-05 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" - Daily amd64 (20140810)
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[David Martin Planelles (masterplanelles)]

I'm also facing this problem. It's very annoying. At first, i thought my elementaryOS was bugged because of installing some apps, but now I realise that's a bug.

[Davide Aguiari (gorghino)]

After almost 2 years, this is bug is still unfixed :/
It's very annoying!

Elementary Freya 0.3.2 64bit

[cipricus (cipricus)]

I am commenting here just to say that the issue is not completely described in any report that I could find (it was also reported here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1423458) and here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/wingpanel/+bug/1448450)

There are two events here:

STEP 1. right and left click on a taskbar icon (keyboard layout, sound, network, power, etc) have both the same effect: a menu is displayed

 (this is a bit unusual and can be seen as a bug since on all other systems I've seen left and right click on a such icon triggers different effects)

STEP 2. to use the menu, one has to click the same mouse button that was used to show the menu at STEP 1.

That's why left click is not working on a menu triggered with right-click and right click is not working on a menu triggered with left click on the icon. That is more than unusual, it's misleading: left and right click have the same effect (menu appears ) but only to a point (to use the menu left and right click are not interchangeable anymore)

Therefore, a solution can be imagined as:

A. right-click should trigger a different effect than left click on a taskbar icon

OR

B. right-click and left click should trigger the same effect all the way: open menu by left or right clicking the icon and select a menu entry with left or right no matter the mouse button initially used to show the menu

[cipricus (cipricus)]

I see no reason why right click should be disabled in favor of left click or the other way around, or why any of them should be disabled, they can very well serve different purposes or the same purpose, but in the latter case it's matter of consistency to make them work interchangeably all the way.

[Davide Aguiari (gorghino)]

It's fixed in Elementary Loki