Hover-activated buttons yes/no?

[ralesk]

There's this thing with the attachment and emoticon buttons that they activate on hover (bringing up the little windows)... and to be quite honest I find that a really weird behaviour.

So I'd just like to ask the others here in the issue-land whether it's just me or they too are bothered by it.

It doesn't seem like a hard thing to change either way (I mean, to activate them on click like every other button/menuitem/whatever).

[VitRom]

+1, it's VERY annoying.
Especially taking in account a wide-spread reading habit to point with a mouse onto a key areas. One tiny move over the last message timestamp and a huge popup blows in eyes.

Add.:
Regardless of any "reading habits" this ugly popup impertinently pops up during a very generic mouse operation:

1. right-click inside the input field and paste a short (not more then 1 line) text
2. move mouse to the right to click on the "Send" button

[Sh4d0wHunt3rX]

I agree with @ralesk and @VitRom . We worked for years with the point and click system, it's really annoying that hovers make the tooltip appears accidently. I was thinking maybe it's better to show the emoticons tooltip as a fixed sidebar, same as this:

This will prevent accident hover thing, and also increases speed in searching and choosing the sticker we want to send.

[ralesk]

Still wishing for the hover popups to be turned into click-activated ones. Any feedback from developers on this, and other users?

[ralesk]

I still regularly bump into not wanting to open the emoji popup but managing to and ending up almost clicking an emoji.

[Sh4d0wHunt3rX]

After working a lot with Telegram, I get used to it and now I'm too lazy for clicking on emoji button for opening it! 😄

[VitRom]

A two kind of jokes are here, one with a smile(s), and another one for those who understands that a joke's salt not in the smile(s).
Hover-activation is for the first only.
Er... :-)

PS.
Just curious HOW is this stupid hover should work on the completely click-driven systems like Android phones. AFAIK there's no any mouse nor any other source of "hover" events. So WTF how this "brilliant smart design piece" decision been placed into production at all?

[ralesk]

My biggest problem with all the UI bugs I reported is that nobody from Telegram bothers to respond to it.

[stek29]

#1751 btw

[ralesk]

Thanks @stek29. Amazing response time there too.

[gottesman]

The user's list from a group, with less than 100 members, just pops up when I move the mouse to the Back Button when I want to go back to main screen. That's pretty annoying, because I end up viewing a user's profile if I just insta-click.

[john-preston]

@gottesman That's a regression, this dropdown should appear below the top bar (which leads to group profile or back), I'll fix that in the next version, thanks.