Feature #2924
closed
Make the right click menu more discoverable using a cursor property
Added by Eric Davis over 15 years ago.
Updated about 14 years ago.
Description
The right click context menu is really useful but it's difficult to find unless you are told about it. In order to make it a bit more discoverable, I'm thinking a CSS property can be added to the table rows. Looking in Firebug, I found cursor: context-menu
which give the cursor a nice little dropdown icon. Would this be an improvement and help hint to new users that there is a menu here?
Eric Davis wrote:
The right click context menu is really useful but it's difficult to find unless you are told about it. In order to make it a bit more discoverable, I'm thinking a CSS property can be added to the table rows. Looking in Firebug, I found cursor: context-menu
which give the cursor a nice little dropdown icon. Would this be an improvement and help hint to new users that there is a menu here?
+1 on this one.
Cursor icons suggest you can do something by left-clicking, so setting cursor: context-menu
would mean the context-menu appears when you left-click.
And what about showing the context menu when left-clicking once the row is selected?
This would solve problems with the right-click on some browsers as well.
Depends on the user. Someone like me, who likes clicking around and selecting text while reading will get annoyed by a constantly popping up context menu. In addition to that it's error prone: the first entry often is delete!
How about a column with a context-menu icon?
Attaching to the left click event would be nice but I also use the left click to highlight text (e.g. Copy and paste the raw issue text for an email). How about adding the context menu for either left or right click but only attaching it to one column? The Issue ID column would be good since that's always present and is usually an extra link since Subject links to the issue details.
- Status changed from New to Resolved
The original request has been taken care of, can this ticket be closed? I think the discussion about whether right- or left-click or an extra column should be handed over to the UI Team, in a new ticket should a ticket be wished for.
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
- Assignee set to Eric Davis
- Target version set to 1.0.0 (RC)
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Resolution set to Fixed
Felix,
Agreed, this is done. Other improvements can new feature requests.
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