Summary: | usability problem with RMB menu and text selection | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Daniel Naber <misc2006> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Kate Developers <kde-kant> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Other | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Daniel Naber
2002-06-19 00:47:01 UTC
Judging from the code, it looks like this behaviour is intended. The options are: a) leave as is b) don't check if the cursor is inside the selected area and just popup the rmb menu c) check if the cursor is "near the selection" (like no more than the height on a line or width of one or two chars away). What should we do? we chosen b), as most compliant to all other kde editors and qt widgets (we ended with b), since that is similar to other kde editors (kedit, kword)) Actually, b) is the worst solution, as it results in much worse usability problems. For example, see bug #55279. Right-clicking is a contextual action; it should always refer to the object clicked on, not what is selected somewhere else. If you want to take an action on the selection, you should have to click on the selection. For these reasons, I'm going to revert to the old behavior. I don't believe the above description constitutes a bug. |