linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #313: Hovering over where an application menu item will be, activates that item when the menu appears.
Author: dementedsnake
Created: 2012-02-08 21:00:58+00:00
State: open

Sometimes the application menu is slow to appear, that's fine. What's wrong however, is that if your cursor happens to be hovering over where a program icon will be, then when the menu finally does appear, it activates or clicks that item. Unintentionally running programs you didn't click on. That has to be a bug.

The user is forced to click the menu button and freeze their hand until the menu actually appears, if they want to be sure they don't accidentally run something.

Here's a video to demonstrate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2ENcXPn8c

Here's my menu:
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/4756/thisoner.png
As you can see, where my cursor was in the video was directly on top of the terminal icon.

TEXT FROM VIDEO:

Click and wait for menu to appear. Accidentally hovering over where terminal icon will be.
For some reason, the terminal is clicked whenever the menu finally does appear.