[rekonq] Re : Right click menu

Andrea Diamantini adjam7 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 14:27:23 CEST 2009


On Thursday 03 September 2009 14:15:08 Lionel Chauvin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> A contextual menu must be CONTEXTUAL. This is a nonsense to have at the
>  same time "back" (page context) and "copy" (text context). Sometime you
>  will prefer "copy" as first item, sometime you will prefer "back". This is
>  the automatic selection which broke the UI design.

I thought a bit about this before implementing. And checked my installed six 
browsers (rekonq, konqueror, firefox, arora, chrome, seamonkey).
It seems all but us have them.
I agree that the first/last actions should be the most "contextual".
Adding some others seems not that bad to me.

Regards,  
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