Mouse focus on panel and exceeded clicks

z zoomer.gm at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 14:34:25 CET 2008


2008/12/16 z <zoomer.gm at gmail.com>:
> Hi all.
> I was using win-xp in the past (and hope i'll never have to move back).
> I just want to ask about one feature, wich windows-panel has.
>
> Plasma-panel can become "mouse-unfocusable". i.e. you can point mouse
> on the panel elements, but they don't respond to this (i.e. no
> highlight, tooltips...).
> This happens for ex. when you click on the Application-launcher (or
> click on KMix, or Device-notifier or right-click on any other panel
> element)
> The panel stops to highlight elements on mouse focus (and show
> tooltips) until you perform mouse click.
> That adds one exceeded click to interact with any single-click element
> on the panel.
>
> The worst thing brings application launcher: it adds one more click to
> the prevoiusly mentioned:
> -first click on some panel element just closes app-launcher menu, if
> it is opened.
> -second click moves focus to this element (that can be not click, but
> slight mouse move)
> -third click performs actual clicking on element.
>
> Three clicks instead of one are bit annoying.
> And tooltips with highlighting - can they be lock-free?(i.e. always
> mouse-focus-respondable elements)
>
> Can this be handeled somehow, or is this QT-specific thing, which
> requires QT-libs changing?
>
> Thanks.
>

is this wrong list for this question?
May be i should ask QT devs about?


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