GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127013
Open Terminal & Open Tab should not availlable at context menu during text selection
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: Select some text using mouse in gnome-terminal Right click. normally when text selected, user want to copy the selected text. Extra Tab related menu make the "Copy" hard to reach... Actual Results: require moving down the mouse reach "Copy" Expected Results: "Copy" should not far from mouse during right click. Additional Information: usability issue gnome-terminal 2.5.0
(Cc'ing usability-maint for ideas...) This sounds reasonable. I could put the Open Terminal/Open Tab/Close Tab items in the popup after the Copy/Cut ones. My only problem is that that way the first item in the popup will be normally disabled, which is not that nice.
Errr... I'm suggesting the Copy/Paste is on top ONLY when text is selected. so, when text is selected, the "Copy" option is not disable
I feel that I agree with moving the Copy/Paste options to the top, but people also tend to drop down to the end of the list and this is where the new window stuff should be. When using the mouse, the top and the bottom are the "easiest" to click. What I'd like to see: Copy Paste Profile Edit Current Profile Input Methods Hide Menu Bar New Tab New Window I think that people use New Window more often, rather than New Tab.
Hasbullah, that does not work at all: people do like to open windows/tabs while they have selected text. Firefox does have a different context menu when text is selected which does not include the `normal' items, but gedit/evolution do not, for example. I do not know what the HIG prefers. Colin, the Input Methods should be at the botton as per the HIG. In fact, the HIG would want the Copy/Paste items right before the Input Methods item---that's what I understand from reading <http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html#menu-type-popup>---but apps seem not to do that much. I'll not move the Copy/Paste items to the top, and they should be there at all times, iiuc. So I'll close this NOTABUG.