Say you have a list of items you want to scroll through, and each one of these items is configured to open a pop-up on hover.

It is very easy to inadvertently trigger one of these pop-ups as the mouse hovers over each item as the list is scrolling, at which point this pop-up will steal the focus from the mouse cursor and interrupt your scroll midway through, which is really not a great experience.

I would like some way of making scrolling and pop-ups interact in a friendlier way.

@abey79 proposed:

One avenue would be to have any scrolling action resets the tooltip timer, eg.the mouse must be (near)still AND no scrollarea should move for xxx ms.

Sounds good to me.