Patch #26655: Additional icon for contextmenu - Redmine

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Patch #26655

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Additional icon for contextmenu

Added by Felix Gliesche over 7 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Closed

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Normal

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Go MAEDA

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4.0.0

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Description

The contextmenu is a very helpful feature that can increase the productivity while working with redmine. Many people don't know of this great feature because it is only triggered by a right mouse click, which is not a common user interaction on the web. In order to make this feature more prominent this patch adds an icon to table rows that have a contextmenu, which allows to trigger the appearance of the contextmenu with a regular mouse click.

As there was no icon with three dots available in the famfamfam available, we created our own by using an existing icon with a dot.

This gif shows this new icon in action on the issues table:

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contextmenu.gif (71.4 KB) contextmenu.gif		Felix Gliesche, 2017-08-09 12:37
vertical.png (109 KB) vertical.png		Marius BĂLTEANU, 2017-08-14 21:58
mastodon-context-menu-button@2x.png (35.8 KB) mastodon-context-menu-button@2x.png		Go MAEDA, 2017-08-16 02:52
26555-list_html_erb-for-r16971.diff (1.55 KB) 26555-list_html_erb-for-r16971.diff		Go MAEDA, 2018-01-28 02:35
3_bullets.png (1.22 KB) 3_bullets.png	Icon for context menu	Go MAEDA, 2018-01-28 02:35
icon-for-subtasks@2x.png (18 KB) icon-for-subtasks@2x.png		Go MAEDA, 2018-01-28 05:28
0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch (18.9 KB) 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch		Felix Gliesche, 2018-04-19 16:05

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Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io over 7 years ago

Target version set to Candidate for next minor release

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Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io over 7 years ago

File deleted (~~contextmenu.gif~~)

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Updated by Felix Gliesche over 7 years ago

File contextmenu.gif contextmenu.gif added

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Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io over 7 years ago

Tracker changed from Defect to Patch

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Updated by Go MAEDA over 7 years ago

Felix Gliesche wrote:

Many people don't know of this great feature because it is only triggered by a right mouse click, which is not a common user interaction on the web.

I think it is exactly right. It is very good idea to make the context menu obvious.

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Updated by Luis Blasco over 7 years ago

You're absolutely right. Context menu is not used, too "hidden". This is a very good solution.

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Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io over 7 years ago

The patch is based on user research we did for Planio Redmine Hosting. We also surveyed a number of other platforms which use item list representations and context menus (Dropbox, Nextcloud, box.net, etc.). A horizontal three dotted icon seems by far to be the most common trigger for a context menu these days. Right click without alternative was only present in a few examples (e.g. Google Drive). The feature will be rolling out at Planio soon and I would love for this to become part of Redmine as well!

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Updated by Go MAEDA over 7 years ago

Target version changed from Candidate for next minor release to 4.1.0

The icon greatly improves usability.
Setting target version to 4.1.0.

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Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 7 years ago

File vertical.png vertical.png added

Very nice feature, especially that it will make the context menu available on the mobile.

It looks good also with a vertical three dotted icon.

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Updated by Felix Schäfer over 7 years ago

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

It looks good also with a vertical three dotted icon.

This would be confusing as the vertical dots are already used as drag and drop handlers for trackers, enumerations, statuses and so on.

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Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU over 7 years ago

Felix Schäfer wrote:

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

It looks good also with a vertical three dotted icon.

This would be confusing as the vertical dots are already used as drag and drop handlers for trackers, enumerations, statuses and so on.

From my knowledge, the drag and drop handlers have a green arrow as icon. Anyway, it is not so important how the dots are displayed, both options look good to me and also, the dots can be easily rotated only from CSS. I just wanted to point out this alternative.

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#12

Updated by Felix Schäfer over 7 years ago

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

From my knowledge, the drag and drop handlers have a green arrow as icon.

You are right, I am sorry, the 3 dots are used in a theme, and vertical dots are used as drag and drop handlers in Gmail for example too.

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#13

Updated by Felix Gliesche over 7 years ago

File 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch added

I am attaching an updated patch, that sets correct colspan when grouping issue lists.

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#14

Updated by Jan from Planio www.plan.io over 7 years ago

File deleted (~~0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch~~)

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#15

Updated by Go MAEDA over 7 years ago

File mastodon-context-menu-button@2x.png mastodon-context-menu-button@2x.png added

FYI:
Mastodon (social network server) uses horizontal three dots button for context menu.

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#16

Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA over 7 years ago

Description updated (diff)

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#17

Updated by Go MAEDA about 7 years ago

Has duplicate Feature #1590: Awkward way of accessing shortcut menu in issue list added

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#18

Updated by Mischa The Evil about 7 years ago

Related to Feature #5711: Make Bulk Edit menu more apparent... added

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#19

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 7 years ago

File 26555-list_html_erb-for-r16971.diff 26555-list_html_erb-for-r16971.diff added
File 3_bullets.png 3_bullets.png added

I made a slight change to the patch because I couldn't apply to the current trunk (r16971 and later).

And the patch doesn't include 3_bullets.png, so I stole the icon from Planio :)

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#20

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 7 years ago

File icon-for-subtasks@2x.png icon-for-subtasks@2x.png added
Status changed from New to Needs feedback

I found a small problem that the context menu icon is displayed in a wrong position for subtasks. No problem for related issues. I also confirmed the very similar problem in my Planio account.

Felix Gliesche, could you fix this?

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#21

Updated by Felix Gliesche almost 7 years ago

Go MAEDA wrote:

I found a small problem that the context menu icon is displayed in a wrong position for subtasks. No problem for related issues. I also confirmed the very similar problem in my Planio account.

Felix Gliesche, could you fix this?

Sure, I'll have a look into it.

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#22

Updated by Felix Gliesche almost 7 years ago

File 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch added

I am uploading a patch, that should apply to the current trunk. The problem, you are referencing to is related to missing mobile optimiziation. I added missing styles to public/stylesheets/responsive.css as you can see in the updated version of the patch.

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#23

Updated by Felix Gliesche almost 7 years ago

File 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch added

I had to update the patch (see attached). Could you please delete the previous one, to avoid confusion?

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#24

Updated by Felix Gliesche almost 7 years ago

File 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch added

I found, that the text shines through, due to right padding, which is not necessary on mobile devices. I removed this, whit this updated patch. Please use this one ;)

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#25

Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 7 years ago

File deleted (~~0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch~~)

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Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 7 years ago

File deleted (~~0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch~~)

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Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 7 years ago

File deleted (~~0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch~~)

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#28

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 7 years ago

Status changed from Needs feedback to New

Thank you for updating the patch. Now it works perfectly. I think this feature should be a part of Redmine 4.0 / 4.1.

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#29

Updated by Go MAEDA over 6 years ago

Status changed from New to Closed
Assignee set to Go MAEDA
Target version changed from 4.1.0 to 4.0.0

Committed. Thank you for sharing this great improvement.

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#30

Updated by Go MAEDA over 6 years ago

Status changed from Closed to Reopened
Assignee deleted (~~Go MAEDA~~)
Target version changed from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0

Reverted r17252 and r17253 because the patch breaks the test suite.

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#31

Updated by Go MAEDA over 6 years ago

Assignee set to Felix Gliesche

After applying the patch, an exception is raised if a user who does not have "Manage related issues" permission opens an issue with one or more related issues. You can also confirm the problem by running test/functional/issues_controller_test.rb.

But I noticed that this bug has already fixed in Planio. Could you kindly provide a patch based on the current Planio's code base?

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#32

Updated by Felix Gliesche over 6 years ago

Go MAEDA wrote:

After applying the patch, an exception is raised if a user who does not have "Manage related issues" permission opens an issue with one or more related issues. You can also confirm the problem by running test/functional/issues_controller_test.rb.

But I noticed that this bug has already fixed in Planio. Could you kindly provide a patch based on the current Planio's code base?

Sure, I will have a look into it. Already working on the patch, so that it does not break the test suite.

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#33

Updated by Felix Gliesche over 6 years ago

File 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch 0001-Use-button-as-additional-option-for-contextmenu.patch added

Go MAEDA wrote:

Committed. Thank you for sharing this great improvement.

I am uploading the updated patch. It does not break the test suite and fixes the problem for users without the "manage related issues" permission that you mentioned.

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