Idea: Avoid triggering popup menu action from mouse-release shortly after mouse-press

[eirikbakke]

On Windows, popup menus appear when releasing the right-click button. On MacOS, they appear when pressing the right-click button. FlatLAF correctly follows this behavior on each platform.

There's a usability problem on MacOS, though. If the user moves the cursor towards the intended menu item, and happens to release the mouse button while the cursor is now over another menu item, then the latter action will be executed instead of the intended one. I make this mistake myself quite often when working quickly (with an external mouse, not a trackpad). See the screen recording below:

https://youtube.com/shorts/RzlnnRMP8J8

Proposal: In a JMenuItem, ignore a right-button mouse-release event for action triggering purposes if it comes within a short duration of the corresponding mouse-press event (e.g. 250ms).