[rekonq] Right click menu

Andrea Diamantini adjam7 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 22:05:07 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 02 September 2009 21:57:35 Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Now that 4.3.1 is out AND that I found the reason why right-clicking on a
>  text element crashed rekonq, I can play with the latest and greatest
>  rekonq again. And it's getting pretty good, especially now that
>  right-clicking on bookmarks works properly. Keep up the good work, people!
> 
> However, all is not perfect, especially when navigating primarily with the
> mouse. I have a few thoughts on how the right-click menu could be
> improved in this respect, and I'm curious to know what you guys think about
> it.
> 
> First off, 'Back-with-history' as it is now in the right click menu, is not
>  the best solution, in my opinion. 90% of the time, users want to go back
>  to the last page visited. I think having to go all the way up to the
>  menubar for the last 10% is an acceptable trade-off, in return for not
>  having to move the mouse more than a few pixels when right-clicking and
>  hitting 'back'. So I vote to have a simple 'back' with no history
>  (additionally, it would make it consistent with 'forward' which has no
>  history).
> 
> Secondly, right-clicking on a text element selects this text immediately
>  and lets you copy it (fine). But you lose all the functionality from the
>  "normal" right click menu (bad, since most of the area of a standard
>  webpage is well, text). I would suggest having at least
>  back/forward/reload just below 'copy'. Maybe move the 'Search with...'
>  items in a submenu.
> 
> Thoughts?

Seems all good! I'll implement it ASAP (I'm working hard these days)..

Cheers,

PS: and we'll provide also a check on Search Engine extant ;)

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