Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-06-19 11:59:41 +0000 Raffael Herzog <herzog-lists@raffael.ch> wrote:

> Please, don't repeat the mistakes all the others do. KDE and GNOME broke their 
> UIs to imitate Windoze. Apple broke the NeXT UI to a certain extent to imitate 
> the good old Macintosh. Let's not break GNUstep's UI to imitate whatever.

I agree...

> *If* we introduce context menus, then this should be something for advanced users who 
> know the application very well. But all the functionality should be availabe without 
> using them. Using an application shouldn't be a "find the right context menu" 
> adventure game, IMHO.

Well, yes, *all* the functionalities of the contextual menus should be available
in a more straighforward way, like the standard menu.
But contextual menus are interessting to use anyway, as they are a good way
of regrouping actions for a specific object. The policy should be that the 
actions in contextual menus *must* be available
somewhere else, and not only via contextual menu. And yes, they are more
an "advanced user" feature; but that doesn't means they are not interessting.

> I didn't know that this context menu in GWorkspace exists and I never missed 
> it. In the seldom cases I want to open a file using a tool different to the 
> default one, I just take the straight-forward way: Open the tools inspector and 
> choose the tool there. And I'll most probably continue to do so since I need 
> this very seldomly, so I probably won't remember the context menu the next time 
> I'm in such a situation.

It's also a recent addition to GWorkspace..

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Nicolas Roard