Applet window impossible to interact with when focus_follows_cursor is enabled

[refrogerator]

Beause the applet window spawns far below the main panel, when you try to move the cursor onto it it disappears because the window behind it gets focused.

This makes it impossible to actually interact with it

[refrogerator]

This doesnt seem to happen with cosmic-native iced based applications like the settings app

[mgiv]

Same thing happens when right-clicking an app on the dock and also with the launcher

Note: Works on empty desktop

[refrogerator]

bump 🗣️

[wash2]

The panel dismisses popups on focus loss, because typically that would be associated with clicking on another application's window, which would close a popup. Maybe when the focus follow cursor mode is enabled, keyboard focus should not follow the cursor if it leaves an app with a popup. @pop-os/ux do you have any opinion on how this behavior could be improved?

[maria-komarova]

When I try to set the setting to focus follows cursor and gaps between windows to 0 I still have no problem interacting with the applets. So it would be nice to reproduce the issue before making any design adjustments.

[refrogerator]

the problem happens when the window gap is not set to 0 and the delay for focus follows mouse is 0ms

[refrogerator]

maybe the applet popup could be exempt from the window gap and just spawn directly below the panel

[maria-komarova]

Why did you set the delay to 0? I believe this is rather than a gap is responsible for not being able to get to the applet. The gap between panel and applets is very small and window gap doesn't control it (or at least shouldn't control it).

[refrogerator]

because thats my preferred setting

[refrogerator]

the gap is the same distance as the window gap at least with my config, big enough to make it focus the window instead of the popup