telegramdesktop / telegramdesktop/tdesktop
Mouse hover + keyboard navigation = mess
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Description
I vaguely remember opening an issue about this in the past, but I can't find it and I'm not so sure.
So contrary to every other application where there's an actual selection in the list and it has nothing to do with whatever you're hovering on with the mouse, in Telegram Desktop if you have the mouse somewhere (be it by mere accident), that thing will be the selection, and eg. [Up] and [Down] will move the selection in the list (eg. contacts, recent chats, ...) from that item, rather than what was selected previously (or the top if nothing was).
I'd love it if Telegram started to behave like a normal app in this regard.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the mouse-hover and Up/Down behavior in the contacts and recent chats lists described in the issue. Trace how hover state and keyboard selection interact, then verify that keyboard navigation preserves the prior selection or starts at the top when none exists.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100