extragear/sdk/kdevplatform

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 16.01.10 22:33:11, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Samstag 16 Januar 2010 22:24:56 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > On 16.01.10 21:08:24, David Nolden wrote:
> > > SVN commit 1075828 by zwabel:
> > >
> > > - Don't show "Open Project"-like actions when right-clicking arbitrary
> > > items like files in the project-tree. Those actions simply don't fit into
> > > that context, and made the context-menu have 15 entries..
> > 
> > This was on purpose. It makes total sense to have "Open Project"
> > in the context menu in the project menu. Especially if the tree is open
> > its close to impossible to find an empty place to right-click in.
> 
> Have you actually looked at the context menu? That option showed up whatever 
> kind of item you clicked, and it made the context menu have up to 15 items. 
> Many of those were not related to the item you clicked, which defeats the 
> purpose of a "context" menu.
> 
> Even worse, I felt really confused and annoyed by those actions, since they 
> simply were completely unrelated to what I wanted to do. I'm quite sure others 
> would feel the same.
> 
> We still have those actions in the main menu, so I cannot see the real problem 
> here. It would even make sense adding them to the toolbar within the project-
> view, but not into the context-menu of unrelated items.

See my answer to Milian, either we have them in the context menu always
or we don't have them in the context menu ever - IMHO.

Andreas

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