On 23 March 2014 12:53, Quiddity <pandiculation@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.

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James D. Forrester
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