GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94120
The Actions menu should have a context menu
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:01:17 UTC
To be consistent with the Applications menu, the Actions menu should be editable also. Its not clear how to do this, though
why? What is the benefit of being able to edit the actions menu. This just seems like an easy way to allow users to easily break their setups.
Okay, I was only setting up the forum for you guys to tussle over what you seemed to want to fight over in #84740. /me hands out the boxing gloves and jumps out of the ring ... :-)
hey mark in the future when you mention bug numbers can you use the syntax "bug 84740" that way they get automagically hyperlinked.
hmm as not to contradict my self: 1. making actions configurable for admins might be useful, but for users (using a vfolder method) is probably bad. 2. I think most of the right click options in the apps menu are crack anyway, the exception may be the actual menu editing options, but i'm of the pesuasion that menu editting should be limited to the nautilus view, seems too easy to me to accidentally mess up the menus through the context menus. see bug 84555. Also context clicking in the applications menu is inconsistent with menus everywhere else in the interface.
At the very least, if we're not going to make the Actions menu editable, we need to disable the "right-click activates the menu item" feature. This is non-standard and has led to me launching things on the Actions menu on many occasions that I didn't want to... and people will be especially prone to doing this until they discover that the Actions menu behaves completely differently from the Applications menu for no apparent (to them) reason :)
Removing keynav keyword as I'm not sure there's currently a keynav issue here, exactly.
*** Bug 150291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There should be an ability to add some launchers from the desktop (or any other place, for example gnome-panel) to the panel's Actions menu. In other words - Actions menu should support .desktop file format like Applications menu. It would be a very useful feature, users want to have an ability to customize the Actions menu, there are several bugreports about this already ( for example bug #98222 , bug #72598 and bug #105638 ) In bug 150291 Mark McLoughlin 2004-08-17 wrote: > The only thing in this bug report above and beyond what's in bug #94120 is the suggestion that we should use .desktop files for the Action's menu. Please just add a comment to that effect in bug #94120
Hello, here a bug I filled for Ubuntu https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6067 I think a maximum of item in the panel menu must have a context menu: * At least "Add to panel" item that can be dragged to the panel. * Standard nautilus file popup menu (open, unmount, disconnect, etc.) for items in "places" and "recent documents" When a popup menu do not makes sense (eg. "clean recent documents"), a right click must do nothing.
Close this bug off. There's no actions menu in 2.10 onward, right?
Ok, Applications and System/Desktop are now editable, but Places is not. There is another bug opened for this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325112 , so I believe this can be closed.
Current bug about adding a context menu to Places: bug #172749. Closing this as OBSOLETE as per comment #10.