Re: FOSDEM Aftermath - the Hotel / Notes from preparing and giving my talk

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 21 Feb 2009, at 08:59, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > - while I am on it: I find the right click behaviour of GNUstep (show
> > the main menu under the mouse, like OPENSTEP) quite dated. Mac OS X /
> > Cocoa has a context based menu on right click nowadays (like every
> > other platform). Maybe we can make that configurable too (to cater
> > both OPENSTEP heads who like the old behaviour and everybody else who
> > expects a context menu): how about a default named
> > GSSecondaryClickBehaviour?
> I'd also prefer context sensitive menus on right click than the  
> whole bunch of
> main menu. That would make understanding an application from an "not  
> so
> experienced" user quite more easy. Especially true for more complex  
> apps like
> e.g. Gorm, where therer is a plethora of menu entries, but only some  
> apply to
> the point where I right clicked.

GNUstep has always had context menus... they were available in NeXTstep.
That being said, they are used so infrequently that they may be buggy  
for all I know.
The thing about context menus is that they are controlled by the  
application (of course), so they only exist if application programmers  
want them to.
I think context menus are rarely useful, and it's generally better to  
try and deign a good on-screen interface rather than depend on pop-up  
menus and tool tips (though both have their place occasionally).