On 23 May 2011 12:28, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > >> See >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/748850 >> which covers both right and middle click. It was supposed to have >> been fixed a couple of days ago so presumably the fix will appear >> soon. >> >> Colin >> > > Hi, > > The bug hasn't been fixed, but somebody changed the status for the fun > of it. > > This doesn't work because it just isn't supported at all by dbusmenu and > unity. Note, that while we want to introduce modifier state in to the > dbusmenu protocol (so that CTRL+click and SHIFT+click work properly), we > won't be adding right-click support (ie, the context menu isn't coming > back). AFAIK, Firefox was the only application to support this, and no > other GTK application did. We want the menus to behave consistently > across applications rather than having users open the menu and wondering > whether right-clicking will perform the action under the pointer or open > a context menu instead.
I am not sure about the logic of this (the bit about not wanting users to be wondering whether right click will open a context menu or not). Am I right in thinking that a user using Firefox in Windows, or other Linux distributions, or indeed Unity if the user sets it up so that application menus are kept within the app rather than going to the top bar will still be able to right click in the bookmarks menu to get a context menu? If so then I think that by making Unity the odd one out a user who uses more than one OS (and I think many Ubuntu users do exactly that) will be in precisely the situation you are trying to avoid, namely that of wondering whether right click in Firefox bookmarks menu will open the link or open a context menu. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
