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Bug 127703 - Add right-click context menu to bookmark toolbar
Add right-click context menu to bookmark toolbar
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Bookmarks
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Marco Pesenti Gritti
Marco Pesenti Gritti
: 116612 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-22 22:14 UTC by Keith Lea
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Keith Lea 2003-11-22 22:14:49 UTC 
Right now, right-clicking a bookmark item in the bookmarks menu or toolbar
acts like a normal click. I'd like to see the menu that shows up when you
right-click a bookmark in the bookmarks window, when right-clicking a
bookmark item in the bookmarks menu or bookmarks toolbar.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2003-11-23 00:00:05 UTC 
I really dont think we should have context menus over menus.
Maybe in toolbars it would make sense though, Dave ?
(Again please please one bug per report)
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2003-11-23 00:13:07 UTC 
Right click menus on menus are bad too (i advocate removing them from 
the panel too). To the casual user right clicking a menu item is the 
same as left clicking a menu item in all menus except the panel. 
Inconsistent? I think so... 

I need to think more about the toolbars. Maybe need to consider the 
tradeoffs first and I don't have a linux box in front of me right now.

<rant>Menu items are suppose to be for commands, not objects.</rant>
Comment 3 Keith Lea 2003-11-23 20:42:55 UTC 
I right-click on menus in Firebird and the GNOME applications menu all
the time, and I think it's pretty useful. I think it's sort of tedious
to have to go to the edit bookmarks window just to delete or move or
rename a bookmark.
Comment 4 Christian Rose 2004-04-08 20:43:44 UTC 
Right-click menus on menu entries might be crack, but having the ordinary
bookmark right click menu available for the bookmarks toolbar buttons makes much
sense.

If I add bookmarks to the bookmarks bar, and make the bookmarks toolbar visible,
then I do so knowingly and determinedly because I want some of my bookmarks very
visible and readily available for me to interact with by simple clicking
wherever and whenever I browse.

The current bookmark toolbar implementation heavily restricts the type of
actions that can otherwise be performed with bookmarks. It basically just allows
for opening the bookmark in the current window/tab, and that's it. There is no
way to open a bookmark on a bookmark toolbar in a different window or tab or
even renaming it. Thus it is inconsistent with bookmarks in other areas of
Epiphany, and also the bookmarks toolbars of other browsers.
These heavy restrictions also defeats much of the purpose of having a bookmark
toolbar in the first place to many users (including me).

Also see bug 106250 about middle-clicking on the bookmarks toolbar buttons.
Comment 5 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-04-17 09:17:56 UTC 
*** Bug 116612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Christian Persch 2004-07-25 10:20:58 UTC 
Bookmarks context menus for bookmarks in the toolbar are implemented in cvs.