https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43445
Bug #: 43445
Summary: BUGZILLA: Drop-down lists disappear when you are
moving your mouse to them
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Status Whiteboard: BSA
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: WWW
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
The LibreOffice version of the bug reporting page (at
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/) has 3 drop-down lists: for
component, sub-component and version. Each of these has the same annoying
behaviour:
- you move your mouse pointer to the green area at the right-hand end of the
list's pseudo-text box
- the drop-down list appears on the screen as soon as you hover over this green
area
- you move your mouse diagonally down and left so as to enter the drop-down
list
- the drop-down list disappears as soon as your mouse pointer leaves the green
area, before it has entered the drop-down list.
The only way you can get the list to remain on the screen is to move your mouse
sideways left from the green area, then down into the list - an unintuitive
dog-leg.
I would suggest one of two solutions:
1. Resize the pseudo-text box and/or the drop-down list so that they are the
same width, the green area being included in the width of the pseudo-text box.
2. Even better, do away with the drop-down-on-hover behaviour completely, and
require a mouse click to bring down the list, as we are used to doing.
Justifications:
(a) Drop-down lists do not generally behave like this in other applications,
nor even in other browser pages. It is therefore unusual and unexpected
behaviour. Just because it is possible to code something new, that doesn't
make it sexy and good.
(b) Drop-down-on-hover has unwanted side effects, such as when you are moving
the mouse pointer across the screen, not wanting to bring down the list, but
you happen to hover over it; or even worse, when you are scrolling the page
using the keyboard, and the drop-down trigger area happens to fall underneath
the mouse pointer.
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1
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