"Cursor Tab" status bar item requires hover (not clickable), unlike all other status bar items

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The “Cursor Tab” item in the status bar (bottom-right) is the only status-bar element that is not clickable. All other items (git branch, notifications, LSP status, etc.) open their menu on left-click, but “Cursor Tab” requires hover with a delay.

This is a significant accessibility issue because:

No click activation → inconsistent with the rest of the UI
Completely inaccessible via keyboard
There are actions that are completely depend on you being to able to hover.

Steps to Reproduce

Open Cursor.
Look at the right side of the status bar (bottom of the window).
Observe the items from right to left, e.g.:
Git branch → LSP/server status → Cursor Tab → Bell notifications → Feedback/Smile
Click on any item except “Cursor Tab” → a menu or action immediately appears.
Try to click on the “Cursor Tab” label itself → nothing happens.
Hover over “Cursor Tab” → after ~500 ms delay, a menu appears.

Expected Behavior

The “Cursor Tab” label in the status bar should behave like every other status-bar item:

Left-click immediately opens the Cursor Tab menu (same as the other items)

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.0.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, thanks for the report. Actually, this isn’t a bug, it’s how the UX is designed. However, we may consider improving it in the future so it matches the standard behavior of the other status bar items.

Thanks for replying. That would be really good, yeah.

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