Version: 3.1.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux KDE has some context menus you wouldn't believe! They include just about everything except an option to make you breakfast when you actually should only have 5-6 items. What annoys me the most about these super duper bloated menus all over KDE is that they often have just about everything EXCEPT what I want. For example, here are the context menu entries that come up when I highlight some text and right click: Up Back Forward Reload Open in New Window Open in Background Tab Open in New Tab Add to Bookmarks Open With Encrypt FIle Create Data with K3b ... Copy To -> Select All Stop Animations View Document Source Viw Document Information Secuirity ... Set Encoding -> In addition, most of these entries do nothintg to the text. For example "Copy To ->" copies the whole page and K3b sets up the whole page for burning and "Encrypt File" would encrypt teh whole page and Open in New Tab opens the entire page in another tab etc. Now the funny thing is, that even with 18 context menu entries (not counting the hundreds of submenu entries) a simple COPY command was left out!! Another odd thing is that right clicking on a link will yield a simple COPY command but not on highlighted text!!? Wha the user actually needed to see when right clicking on highlighted text should have been something simple like in Mozilla: Copy Web Search for "selected text" View Selection Source But, I'm not really suprised that Konqueror included 15 useless and confusing entries when doing something as simple as highlgihting text, after all right clicking on empty part of the page will give you the EXACT same menu.not exactly context sensitive menus... The worst part is that such bloated context menus are all over KDE, for example clicking a floppy will yield 17 entries, albeit less than when right clicking on text, but still a usability disaster. I really hope that such things will get cleaned up before 3.2 this is enough to confuse advanced users, let alone newbies and the CVS "Actions" menu is good but that still leaves 16 entries for right clicking highlighted text!
This is too general for a bug report. You may want to discuss this on kde- usability or something.
No, I'm only mentioning that there are general problems with context menus, but the issue I am trying to have fixed by this bug report is only for the context menu which comes up when highlighting text. Sorry, for ranting so much that the focus of this bug report was not too clear. Perhaps I should rename it as "Extremely Bloated Context Menu When Highlighting Text!!! =(" but when I figured that out it was already too late and I can't seemt to be able to edit my bug report, but I'm hoping you have that power.
No, I do not have the power to alter people's words. Please file a report describing the specific, concrete issue you're having. Thank you.
Ok, would it be all right if I just file a new report changing the title and ad the end say that this bug report is only aimed at changing the entries tha appear when right clicking on selected text?
Yes, although it may make sense to do reports per-item, since some things may not even be in Konqueror per-se. Thank you for your understanding
I don't even need to make a new one, it seems that there already was a bug report about this with over 300 votes!!! http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53772