Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

On 23.06.2003 22:09:49 MJ Ray wrote:
>Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de> wrote:
>> On 23.06.2003 19:48:38 MJ Ray wrote:
>>>Philippe C.D Robert <philippe.robert@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> I do not, at least not intentionally. Contextual menus are as much
>>>> hidden as any other submenu of the app's menu.
>>>How does one detach a context menu to make it continuously visible?  I
>>>do that often with submenus when I use them a lot.
>> Why should anyone want this? IMHO you did not understand contextual 
menus.
>
>IMHO you did not understand the context of this question.  I reject the
>assertion that context menus are only has hidden as submenus because
>they cannot be made visible outside their temporary pop-up state.

Why the hell should they be made visible outside their popup state? they 
are only valid for a short period of time - that is until you choose one 
menuentry to be executed - and assembled only for the object currently 
under the mouse. You can see them as a quick round up of the (also 
otherwise and scattered) available possibilities for this very object. i 
think you are blinded somewhat by wrong implementations of context menus.

>
>>>Huh?  Surely you have to select it and then activate the menu, else it
>>>would break the concept of "targeted actions"...
>> But you don't have to move the mouse to the menubar/application menus 
and
>> navigate through submenus
>
>Regardless, moving to something visible is known to be faster than moving
>to something invisible.  App menus that you use a lot can be made visible
>for longer than a mouse click.

You don't move at all here. Instead of clicking left on an object and 
moving to the menu you click right on an object - select it thereby - and 
viola: the context menus opens right under your mouse.

Lars