[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Context menu

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Tue Sep 24 09:14:24 UTC 2013


On 24.09.2013 10:51, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Am 23.09.2013 20:36:24, schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
>
>     Okay, now I got what you mean. Maybe it's just me, but to me
>     "implicit" is
>     always strongly associated with the "not openly shown" part of the
>     definition
>     "Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly
>     shown" [1].
>     It's not wrong in this context, but at least I didn't get it ;)
>     Maybe we
>     should use "inherent" instead? That would fit as well, and doesn't
>     have the
>     connotation of "hidden".
>     A few of the examples you gave here should be included as well,
>     because they
>     made it more clear to me than probably any word we could come up with ;)
>
>
> What's about:
>
>
> * Provide a context menu for inherent functions. For instance functions
> that are not necessarily shown like 'Copy' and 'Paste' for textual
> controls, or standard functions like 'Forward' and 'Backward in case of
> navigation.

What do you mean by "not necessarily shown"?



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