Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Alexander Perez]

On 16 Jun 2003, Stefan Böhringer wrote:

I second the need for context menus and the design idea as well


> I second the need for context menus.
> I second your design idea.
> 
> Stefan
> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:53, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> [..]
> > I still haven't talked about the idea I have for context menus. Now bear
> > with me; this is just an idea I've had, and I realize some issues would have
> > to be worked out for it to apply to GNUstep.
> > 
> > It goes as follows. Each application would have a "special" menu in its
> > menubar/application menu. I'm not sure what I would call it, but possible
> > names I've thought of are Object, Item, or Context. Anyway, this menu would
> > contain actions that deal with whatever object is selected -- be it a file,
> > a widget in Gorm, a text selection, a mail message, or whatever. The menu
> > would be shown in both the menubar/main menu *and* the transient menu (that
> > thing that pops up by default when you hold the right button in Open/
> > GNUstep).
> > 
> > The entries in the special menu would change depending on what object is
> > selected (using the word "selected" very loosely; it might just mean the
> > mouse pointer is over it). So you would only get actions which make sense in
> > the current context. The problem that I can see with this, unfortunately, is
> > that things (such as menus) that change tend to give usability junkies fits.
> > 
> > The remaining feature of my menu design would be that when the user presses
> > the right button, the *whole* transient application menu should show up,
> > *plus* the context menu, thus allowing the user easy access to either
> > application-global actions or context-specific ones, while still separating
> > them spatially.
> > 
> > The way I envision it, the context menu would be positioned such that its
> > title cell is directly underneath the mouse pointer, just as the
> > application menu now starts with its title under the pointer. The
> > application menu would be positioned just to the left of it, such that the
> > title cell of the context menu is positioned just to the right of its
> > corresponding entry in the app menu. Thus it would look just the same as
> > first opening up the app menu and then mousing down to the "Context" entry
> > (or whatever name it takes), thus popping open the context submenu; except
> > that the submenu would start up already open.
> > 
> > Well, I've gone on long enough. Let me know what you think. Like I said, I'm
> > not sure how well my menu idea would fit GNUstep, but I've been curious what
> > others might think of it.
> 
> 
> 
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