Description of Problem: Not sure why, but the behavior of menu selections from KDE's panel is now pretty user hostile. A selected menu used to disappear when you moved away from it. Now - if a sub-menu is displayed, the menu stays up "forever" [or at least until you click on the main menu or the item that caused the menu to pop up in the first place. How Reproducible: Select a menu (e.g., Internet) with a submenu. Display the submenu. Move the mouse away & work with other windows. The menu stays up. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select the "K" logo on the right side of KDE's panel. 2. Select a submenu (e.g., Games). 3. Click on another window & keep working. The menu stays up and often blocks your view of the area you are working in. Actual Results: Menu displays long after you are "done" with it. Expected Results: Menu disappears when you move "too far" away (the 7.1 behavior). Additional Information: If there is a setting for this [and/or a help guide I should have found], please let me know.
This behavior was needed for technical reasons when we added the tear-off possibility to the menus. The code will probably be changed to allow the old behavior along with tear-off menus in the KDE 3.0 timeframe.