[Digikam-devel] [Bug 192413] Missing items from right-click search menu

[DGardner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192413





--- Comment #2 from DGardner <dkde gardnersworld org>  2009-05-12 19:52:31 ---
> What about the elements at the top under "New Search"? There is a button to
> clear the simple search and a "Reset" button in the advanced search dialog.

They make things better than 0.9.x, but they still do not mean that the
"Now you see it. Now you don't." experience with the context menu is not
a usability bug.

I'm old and cranky and I like to do things the same way. If I can create
searches by right-clicking today, but can't do it tomorrow because I've
created more searches than will fit on my screen without increasing the
vertical resolution to buy some more space, then that is a bug.

The principle is that I am right-clicking on a whole list to add
something to that whole list; I am not right-clicking on some empty
space in the list to add something to fill that empty space. The list
is not a spreadsheet. I expect that if I right-click on the list that
I get the "Create New Search..." option and if there just so happens
to be an exiting entry at that point in the list, I will also get the
option to modify that entry. This is how every other application I can
think of does it and why I reported this as a bug: I have never seen
anything work like this before and cannot think how it could be
anything other than an accident.

What you've pointed to is only a workaround for this particular bug.
I would be grateful if you would fix the context menu and make it
sensible by either removing the option to create searches at all
(definitely not my preferred solution) or fix it to allow the creation
of searches no matter where the mouse is clicked (pretty please).

(Maybe I should brush up on my very rusty C++ and have a go.)

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