admin bar sub menus should open only after a user had clicked the menu

[mark-k]

With the admin bar active in the front, when moving the "mouse" from the location bar of the browser down to the content area, a menu might popup and hide the content/create a distraction.

IMHO menus should be triggered only when a user had clicked one of the high level menu buttons like it is being done in desktop applications menus.

Thanks for reporting the issue. Please keep in mind that this is subjective. As a hot-fix i can only suggest you to disable the admin bar completely as it behaves in the way to open submenus on mouse hovering instead of clicking.

But i think your point is valid as this is a admin bar and not a site-drop-down-navivation.

what is your level of experience with CSS, PHP and HTML?

This is expected behavior. A plugin can override this behavior if it is so desired.

Replying to nacin:

A plugin can override this behavior if it is so desired.

Maybe you can share that information?

You don't need to re-open tickets to ask questions.

Overriding the behavior would involve implementing your own JavaScript in lieu of the core JS.

Replying to nacin:

This is expected behavior. A plugin can override this behavior if it is so desired.

And that is the reason it is an enhancement request and not a bug report......

Try having a multisite install with many blogs managed by you and move your mouse over the menu. It is a big distraction because most of the time you don't do anything which involves the menu.

In my small multisite install the first question I had from users after upgrading to 3.1 is how to turn the admin bar off, and I think this behavior is a major reason for that request.