Irritating reaction emoticon panel

[Biep]

When the mouse pointer only hovers over the reaction button, the panel with emoticons pops up - for no reason, because in order to select an emoticon one still needs first to click the button. And sometimes that panel is 'left behind' - it stays visible after the mouse has moved on.
Please let the panel only pop up after clicking the button, and disappear again after clicking it again.

[thosgood]

I'm guessing this was probably implicit in your suggestion, but the panel should also close if the user clicks anywhere outside of it too :-)

[turt2live]

It would be good to have gifs of what sorts of conditions don't cause it to go away. There's an area around the tooltip to prevent it accidentally dismissing (because that's much more annoying), but there are potentially some bugs with how that works. Please include browser and operating system information alongside the gifs.

[Biep]

@thosgood: yes, I guess so. But (personal preference) clicking on one of the emoticons should not close it, as I might want to add another emoticon.
@turt2live: I'll try to get some. And I hope calling up the screen shot program won't make it close, otherwise I'll have to edit a full screen print.

[Biep]

@turt2live: not what you asked, but this leads to the emoticon panel hopping up and down between having the heart and the thumbsdown selected. I can only get the effect with those two emoticons - the other three pairs seem stable. It is consistently reproducible.

Ubuntu 19.04
The mouse pointer is black, and between the thumbsdown and the heart - as you no doubt expected already.

[Biep]

@turt2live: This should be what you asked.

The panel is very persistent: I hit the meta key to start the screenprint program, and the panel was still there when I took the pic. It survives Alt-Tab and back, and even switching to other rooms: it remains visible in those other rooms. It survives hide Riot + show Riot. In fact, I had to exit Riot and restart to get rid of it.

[turt2live]

@Biep that's the kind of thing that would be good to report in a new, dedicated, issue.

[Biep]

You mean the first screenshot - the vibrating panel? I just did: #10751

[turt2live]

No, I meant the stuck tooltip bug.

Edit: although I guess both is fine.

[Biep]

That second one I posted in reaction to your first comment here. But yes, there are three issues mixed up here:

• The panel popping up on hovering, instead of waiting for a click.
• The panel getting stuck and staying visible
• The panel vibrating.

[turt2live]

right... which had the underlying implication of opening new issues for unique things. I'm not trying to discredit the panel as annoying, but triaging each annoyance on its own is a better option for us to try and fix the problems.

I've opened #10752 to track the issue. I see that you've opened #10751 already for the vibrating problem.

If you run into other cases where the tooltip gets tuck, please open a new issue. For now though, I'm closing this in favour of the two issues mentioned above.

[Biep]

But shouldn't this one stay open for the original issue: the panel popping up on hovering? Or is there an issue for that one already too?

[turt2live]

At this point I'd recommend a whole new issue so the slate can be cleaned.