I always prefer dropdowns to be onclick rather than hover. It stops them getting in the way if you accidentally mouse over them - and in this case they're dropping down over an area of the screen with lots of clickables and info in so I think that would really help.
If you do this though it's helpful to have a little caret symbol next to the text to indicate there's a clickable. You probably only need this on the rightmost breadcrumb? Also, if they stay dropped down until after you click somewhere else you don't get problems where moving the pointer out of the path accidentally causes you to have to start again. Twitter Bootstrap[1] does this nicely IMO. Cheers Brian 1. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#buttonDropdowns On 19 March 2012 23:51, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe the time out is too short, or maybe it shouldn't be triggered by a > hover but should require some clicking instead? > > Making it configurable is certainly possible, but it seems like we should > rather solve the underlying problem if we can.
