click instead of focus to switch applet popup

[juhp]

I am not really a fan of the current behavior where moving the pointer over applets after the initial click causes the displayed popup to switch from applet to applet: it sort of has Plasma desktop menu vibes... (which I personally consider to be a bit of a navigation/a11y nightmare). Specially on a small display with a fast pointer it can hard to stay on the intended applet popup.

I feel it would be better/cleaner UX to require an explicit click on a applet to switch to its popup (menu). This is also how GNOME and KDE do it.

[wash2]

That is originally how it worked, but this feature was added recently. I can make it configurable via cosmic-config and while the setting probably wouldn't be exposed in cosmic-settings, it could be edited with a text editor, or added to a project like https://github.com/edfloreshz/cosmic-tweaks

[wash2]

In the meantime, the behavior can currently be disabled for each applet by removing the X-CosmicHoverPopup= line from each applet and installing the file locally. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-applets/blob/master/cosmic-applet-audio/data/com.system76.CosmicAppletAudio.desktop

[iamkartiknayak]

It should be possible for COSMIC Tweaks to expose this setting.