bug: popover arrow on desktop does not display

[peterpeterparker]

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Ionic Framework Version

• v4.x
• v5.x
• v6.x

Current Behavior

Until Ionic v6, popover with mode set to iOS were presented with an arrow regardless of the device i.e. arrows were displayed for popover even on desktop.

Ionic v6 breaks this behavior and do not display arrows on desktop anymore and thus in any case i.e even if the @Prop() arrow is set to true (see code).

This changes may have been introduced in PR #23258.

Expected Behavior

As in Ionic v5 and previous versions, being able to present popover on desktop with an arrow

Steps to Reproduce

Ionic sample app, open popover with arrow to true or/and mode=ios on desktop.

Code Reproduction URL

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[sean-perkins]

Thanks for reporting this issue @peterpeterparker!

This decision was made to alleviate some design flaws in the desktop implementation and work around a breaking change of changing the default value of arrow on popover.

Discussing with the team, we don't think that was the best solution.

We'll track this as a bug & regression from v5 behavior, likely removing the opinionation for desktop platform and requiring implementations to manually set that flag based on their design patterns.

We'll share an update when we have a decision. Thanks 👍

[peterpeterparker]

Thanks for the feedback @sean-perkins

[jansgescheit]

We missing the arrow on desktop too. We use the popover as a tooltip and it is an important orientation aid on the screen.

[averyjohnston]

This has been resolved via #25056 and the fix will be available in a future release of Ionic 👍

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