GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 84555
Perhaps the applications menu/gnome menu shouldn't have right click popups
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:13:44 UTC
Perhaps the applications menu/ gnome menu shouldn't have popup menus. Not totally sure on this, but here are my reasons: 1. "Remove this item" do we really want it to be this easy to remove an item from the menus? 2. "Properties" nothing dangerous here, but seems like this is something that doesn't really belong in the menus. Generally i think menu editing should be done using the menu editor (whether this be nautilus or perhaps a dedicated capplet in the future) not from the menus. 3. "Add this launcher to panel" well items from here can be dragged to both the panel and the desktop. Also the panel context menu have an add launcher to panel list of all apps. I just think this is a little overkill. 4. "Put into run dialog" if a user wants to run an app from the run dialog, aren't they more likely to choose the app from the known applications in the run dialog? Usually if a user is using the menus to launch a program they just are going to want to start it from the menus. 5. "Entire menus" a) "Add this as drawer to the panel" b) "Add this as menu to the panel" Shouldn't this be done from the panel context menu via the add to panel operation? c) "properties" d) "Add new item to this menu" Once again shouldn't menu editing be done via the menu editor??? 6. Some apps have help in their context menus. Sort of nice, but still overkill, users are more likely to want help once they have launched an app, and will get it via the help options in the program.
I'll paste here a mail from me to desktop-devel, as requested by dave. Still, I think this is something thast should be addressed in the mailing list... El jue, 13-06-2002 a las 20:22, Dave Bordoley escribió: > I think menu editing should be removed from the panel. see bug > 84555. In fact i lean towards saying all right click menus should be removed from the menus. Why? what's wrong with context menus? If I wan't to modify a menu item, why shouldn't I right click on that menu item in the first place? Are you saying that is easier to open a different program (be it nautilus of whatever) for editing the menus, instead of doing it by direct manipulation?
To be fair to Ric, I think the only right click options that make any sense are the menu editing options. I'm not convinced that menu editing is commonly done enough where we should have these options here. However if we do decide to keep menu editing in the menus i would rather see the menu items use a cut copy paradigm eg. the context menu items would be cut copy properties The rest of the cruft needs to go though, it's total bloat...
actually what was i thinking, cut would be terrible and not make sense, scratch that idea. perhaps remove would be ok. so than copy remove properties. but even than i'm still not convinced that context menus are really needed, this would be more of a comprimise. KDE menu's don't have context menus. I thinks windows do, i'm not sure about the mac though.
Dupe of 82241?
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