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Bug 73741 - Some panel menu right-click usability issues
Some panel menu right-click usability issues
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93506
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other Solaris
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-06 17:58 UTC by Calum Benson
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Calum Benson 2002-03-06 17:58:33 UTC
- Currently, to create a new menu from an existing submenu, you have to
right-click a launcher on that submenu, then select "Entire Menu->Add as
new menu".  It would be much more intuitive if you could right-click on the
parent menu item itself (e.g. "Accessories", "Games" etc.) and pop-up a
menu containing:

   Add to Panel as _Menu
   Add to Panel as _Drawer
   ---
   Add _Item...
   ---
   _Properties

but currently there is no right-click menu for such items.

- As an alternative to right-clicking, you should be able to focus a menu
item and press Shift+F10 to pop up its context menu.  This is not currently
possible, the whole menu structure just disappears when you try it.

- All items on a menu item's right-click menu need accelerator keys.  Also
suggest renaming/re-ordering the menu items on this menu, to something
like:

   _Add to Panel
   _Run...
   ---
   _Delete
   ---                            
   _Properties (no ellipsis)

The 'Entire Menu' submenu could be removed if you could right-click on the
parent menu item as described above.  Which would be no bad thing, as
"Entire Menu" is a horrible phrase :)

- Right-clicking on an item on the Actions menu activates that item.  For
consistency with the Applications menu, this probably shouldn't happen-- it
should either pop up a similar context menu to that for launchers on the
Applications menu, or the right click should just be ignored.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-03-06 19:05:01 UTC
Calum: FYI, gnome-panel 2 bugs should be filed under 'gnome-panel' and
not gnome-core.
Comment 2 John Fleck 2002-03-23 03:53:02 UTC
adding myself to cc list

Be sure to let me know when you make this change, and either change
this bug to "fix the docs" or some such wording, or file a new bug to
update the docs to match.
Comment 3 Mark Finlay 2002-11-21 20:44:15 UTC
It would be great if we could add a "Browse in Nautilus" item to the
menu context menu(see bug 99110). This would be a much better way to
get at the menus in nautilus than start-here:
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2002-11-22 15:42:17 UTC
This is probably really a dup of #93506.
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-11-22 16:02:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93506 ***