Public bug reported:
In the far right upper corner, there's the Ubuntu icon under which
access to 'System Settings' etc can be found. When trying to select
'System Settings', it often happens that users accidentally hit 'Switch
User Account' from the neighboring user accounts menu.
Reason:
The user accounts menu icon is directly next to the Ubuntu settings
icon. And because the space these icons take up on the panel is so
small, but the menu itself is much wider, it easily happens that users
accidentally open the menu that is next to the left when trying to hit
the first menu entry of the menu that was originally opened. This is
because the menu entries start on the left side, of course. Users aim
for these entries by making a diagonal move.
So, when making this diagonal move, they often accidentally hover over
the neighboring user accounts menu if they don't move their mouse
strictly vertical. This is very unintuitive and in the course of usage a
thing users don't think of. And because this happens quickly and they
expect to hit the desired menu entry, they also make a mouse-click right
away. But then they end up hovering over the user account menu, thus
opening it and accidentally clicking 'Switch User Account' (and
effectively logging out *dang*).
This is very undesirable and should be fixed by making a click mandatory
in order to open these menus.
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Usability in Unity: Accidental logout due to menu hovering
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