On 23 March 2014 12:53, Quiddity <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some of us power-users are mouse and GUI aficionados.
;)
Eg. I use this FF add-on, to remove unwanted elements from the context
menu, and place my 3 custom searches at the top:
http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
Like so:
http://i.imgur.com/r49wiez.png
That said, I would be annoyed if a site started changing my context menu,
without asking.
This sort of adjustment would be well-suited to a Gadget or Preference,
but not as a site-default. (Which I suspect is what Max intended, when he
submitted the image/idea to the mailing list. :)
Well, right now this is (~) Firefox-only. At some point, it or an
equivalent might make its way into the HTML5 standard process (or have, at
least, a direct equivalent for WebKit and Blink as well as Gecko), but
that's a while off.
If so, and this UX trope becomes somewhat well-known and wide-spread by
users, we could possibly use this for some of the more complex
context-sensitive editing functions inside VisualEditor (e.g. "insert
column" in a table context). Also, given our mobile-equality commitment, it
would have to be a supplementary control (no context menus in mobile), with
an alternative ways of doing all the same tasks, which changes the balance
of these controls into being mostly toys, sadly.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
