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The UI for subfixes attached to a fix annotation is inconsistent with the rest of the NetBeans interface. Other submenus in the IDE require only hovering to reveal the submenu. Accordingly, the submenu for a fix annotation should appear when the user hovers over the parent menu item. The user should not have to click the small right-arrow. It took me a while to figure out that fixes had submenus because of this inconsistent behaviour.
Petr, can you pleas have a look? Thanks.
I checked this and confirm the inconsistency is there. First I summarize what is the intended behavior, because it differs for mouse navigation and keyboard navigation. So in general in Netbeans: - in a menu opened by mouse, the expected behaviour is as reported: hoovering the mouse over a submenu item should immediately show sub-menu items, and hide them when the mouse is moved elsewhere without click. However, - in a menu opened by keyboard, where items are navigated by keyboard (arrows), sub-menus are not! opened when their representing item is reached. User needs to explicitly go to the submenu (right arrow) to display it. The current hint pop-up behavior always follows the keyboard navigation style, regardless whether the pop-up has been opened by a keyboard shortcut (Alt-Enter) and navigated by keyboard or by mouse click to the little hint symbol to the left from the affected line and navigated by mouse. From UEX point of view I believe the hint pop-up behavior should be the same as in other NB menus (e.g., the main menu). I.e., when the pop-up is navigated by keyboard, do not show submenus until user requests so by explicit keystroke (right arrow). However, if it is navigated by mouse, then sub-menus should be displayed on mouse over. Reassigning to Hints owner.
fixed in jet-main: http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/800a868829e8 When user points with mouse cursor at the arrow of hint and submenu is available for that particular hint, then this submenu is opened.
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201307112300* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/800a868829e8 User: Roman Svitanic <rsvitanic@netbeans.org> Log: #189297 - Fix submenu require click to appear which is inconsistent with other menus