GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679977
Overview mouse highlights and contextual menus reset everytime search results change
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:30:54 UTC
Everytime search results in the overview change, - Any open popup menus get closed - The item highlight (the "selection" prelight when you put the mouse cursor over an item) is reset. The very annoying side-effect of preventing from clicking that item afterwards; you have to move the mouse cursor away from the item and then come back to highlight it before being able to click it. Basically, there is a race between my clicks and the search results. Yep, I am a quicksilver when it comes to interacting with an efficient UI.
Demonstration: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/public/gnome-shell-679977.webm
You can still click on the item even though it is not prelit.
Hmmm. Not necessarily/not always. Clicking a non-prelit item does seem to work if you wait long enough for the search results to be finished, or if you click before the new search results come up and "reset" the prelighting, or something along those lines. But there seems to be one or two cases where it eats my clicks. I've re-checked that just now. I'm not entirely sure of the time window during which this occurs, it's kinda hard to figure out the pattern behind the timing.
Another observation: sometimes when you left click quickly on an icon while this search is still going on... it will interpret it as a right-click (it will show the contextual menu for that icon). I had to make sure it wasn't just a glitch, but it occured again to me just now.
(In reply to comment #4) > Another observation: sometimes when you left click quickly on an icon while > this search is still going on... it will interpret it as a right-click (it will > show the contextual menu for that icon). I had to make sure it wasn't just a > glitch, but it occured again to me just now. It could be thinking it's a long press on the icon.
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