GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98906
Open recent menu should have context menu
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:56 UTC
UI review: should be able to right-click on one of the menu entries and select a program to open it with, or remove it from the list [currently right click activates the menu item]
Won't be done before 2.2. Removing ui-review keyword. I also consider it a new feature ...
OK. Mark, could you not remove the UI-review keyword - simply removing the dependancy and changing the target keyword should flag it as not being relevant to GNOME 2.2 any more, but IMHO this should still have the ui-review keyword since it was brought up in a ui-review.
After 2.2, is it at all relevant whether it was brought up at a ui-review or not ? I don't think so ... I'm using the ui-review keyword as "the ui issues that we can fix before 2.2". i.e. a TODO list I can go through in the next week or so. If an ui-review issue can't be fixed for 2.2, I'd prefer it be just a normal bug.
> I'm using the ui-review keyword as "the ui issues that we can fix > before 2.2". i.e. a TODO list I can go through in the next week or so. Technically, that's not what it means in the rest of bugzilla. This should work for you: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gnome-panel&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=ui-review%2CGNOMEVER2.1&keywords_type=allwords If there's a bug that can't be fixed for 2.2, change the GNOMEVER2.1 keyword to GNOMEVER2.3. But in theory, it would save the ui-review team work in the next ui-review if issues already in bugzilla could be queried for. And don't worry too much about them just becoming stale, because a) we have a terrific and increasing bugsquad, and b) I am tracking the ui-review bugs as best I can.
I vote for this bug
> should be able to right-click on one of the menu entries and > select a program to open it with, or remove it from the list would this not introduce an inconsistency with the rest of the menus ? We have a bug somewhere else that the Actions menu should have a context menu the same as on the Applications menu ... should the context menus not be the same ?
Agree if we want a context menu on the Actions menu as well, it should be as similar as possible to the one on the Apps menu, although not many of the things on the Apps context menu currently make much sense for the Actions menu. Certainly "Add this launcher to panel" and "Remove this Item" could be useful for the Actions menu though, if nothing else.
(The other bug about the Actions context menu is #94120, btw.)
Updating keyword to GNOMEVER2.5 Of course I don't see this as happening before that timeframe, Mark? Also putting in usability keyword since the exact content menu isn't worked out yet.
So... What should we have in this menu? I propose this (probably won't go in before feature freeze...): Open with <default mime handler> --- Open with > (submenu with other mime handlers) --- Add this launcher to panel Remove this item The top of the menu is like the one we have in nautilus. I know it's not the same context menu as the one used in the applications menu... But is this really a problem here?
That sounds good to me Vincent
Wouldn't "Open with <default mime handler>" be better expressed as just "Open"? Especially as <default mime handler> is often some binary name that the user won't have seen on their GNOME menu before anyway. (I guess this applies to nautilus too...)
Mass changing: milestone 2.12.x => milestone 2.14.x
(In reply to comment #10) > So... What should we have in this menu? > I propose this (probably won't go in before feature freeze...): > > Open with <default mime handler> > --- > Open with > (submenu with other mime handlers) > --- > Add this launcher to panel > Remove this item > > The top of the menu is like the one we have in nautilus. > I know it's not the same context menu as the one used in the applications > menu... But is this really a problem here? Another thing would perhaps be to add "Open the folder the document is in"? (Yeah, better wording would be needed.) Btw, what is the status on this one?
Re comment #14, appropriate wording would probably be something like "Show in File Manager", "Reveal in File Manager", or "Open Enclosing Folder".
*** Bug 561960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For consistency, is it possible to show basically the same context menu as shown in nautilus?
Created attachment 140856 [details] [review] Adds context menu with "Open" and "Open Parent Folder" to recent menu Here's a first patch that adds a simple context menu to an item in the recent menu. It has no fancy "open with" menu but I can add that if that's what we want. There's one problem with this patch, the main menu wont hide when I've selected something from the context menu - if someone could point me in the right direction I could probably fix it... Screenshot in a moment. Comments? PS. Still having problem adding patches to bugzilla so it will a plain text and then a patch...sorry for spamming.
Created attachment 140857 [details] Screenshot of context menu in recent menu
This has been reported as a paper cut in Ubuntu at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/174317 Has anyone had a chance to review the patch submitted in comment #18?
I've dropped context menus in applications menu anyway, since this breaks with GTK+ 3 and it was always a bit broken (not possible to have popup for items with a submenu)