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Daan Hoogland closed CLOUDSTACK-6310.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
> Consider removing (or at least an option to disable) pop-over functionality
> in the UI
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> Key: CLOUDSTACK-6310
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6310
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Components: UI
> Reporter: John E Vincent
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> One of the most painful things in the CS UI is the "pop-over" functionality.
> To date it has caused countless unintentional behaviours on our part and from
> what I've gathered to other users as well.
> There are a few main issues:
> - The firing of the popover UI happens inconsistently.
> In some cases it fires mousing over a menu item. In other cases it fires when
> mousing over a "+" sign in lists. Still in other cases it seems to fire when
> you hover for some undetermined period of time in a list item. I'm pretty
> sure this is all latency related but I haven't looked at the code to see if
> the UI popover triggers a new API call for details.
> - The pop-over doesn't clear properly all the time
> This one is really annoying because depending on the variable size of the
> popover and where it fires, it actually OBSCURES the list you're trying to
> navigate.
> - The pop-over doesn't reset for different elements
> This is similar to the previous and actually the cause of much consternation.
> You can mouse over the "+" for a list item and it will actually be showing
> the WRONG item. This can be disastrous on the same scale as the
> "reset/reboot" icon fiasco.
> - The information never fits anyway
> In almost every non-trivial case, the popover can't hold the information it
> needs to display anyway.
> I want to be clear that I really enjoy the UI in most cases but the popover
> has caused me countless amounts of lost time in trying to avoid it only to
> have it get stuck or fire just because I moved the pointer out of the way.
> I don't have any hard suggestions here and I'm not a UI expert by any stretch
> but it feels to me that possibly an accordion approach (expand down on list
> item click for instance) would be a much more navigable paradigm. This brings
> back the intent of selection with UI interaction instead of it being subject
> to where someone stows the mouse pointer.
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