Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2003-06-19 12:57:54 +0300 Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:

> > Are you saying that you want items on the pop-up menu that are not on the
> > global menu?  That would be Evil, Bad and Wrong, as well as inconsistent.
>
> Doesnt OSX do this though ? The contextual menus on the dock I just tried
> give me a "show in finder" which I cant find on any other menu.
>
> Conmtentual menus may be bad - but in a windows world users actually *expect*
> them oddly enough. Right click and look for "properties" is second nature
> to most windows people I know. Dont underestimate the importnace of
> familiarity. We all know that the modern keyboard layout is suboptimal after
> all, but its one mostr people know and comming up with better solutions hasnt
> been met with mass market success oddly enough.

I want only to say that I've added these very bad things because the users 
wanted them. Anyway, as I usually do before writing, I've looked in the 
documentation where, in NSView, you can find:

"
- (NSMenu *)menuForEvent:(NSEvent *)theEvent
Overridden by subclasses to return a context-sensitive pop-up menu for the 
mouse-down event theEvent. The receiver can use information in the mouse event, 
such as its location over a particular element of the receiver, to determine 
what kind of menu to return. For example, a text object might display a 
text-editing menu when the cursor lies over text and a menu for changing 
graphics attributes when the cursor lies over an embedded image.
"

So, I've considered natural to add them.