+1 For giving some additional use to right-mouse-click in map canvas. Context menus seems coherent with most of software that I have worked with.<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure about where right-click direct actions are used, I can only remember the finish feature edit.<br>
<div><br></div><div>For currently actions using direct right-click, I see a few alternatives:</div><div>1 - The action is the first on the context menu ( need 2 clicks and breaks current usability);</div><div>2 - Assign function key for those actions (fast but breaks usability, not suitable for mouse position dependent actions); </div>
<div>3 - Change right-click direct action to Shift + Right Click ( faster, and kinda keeps usability); </div><div><br></div><div>I personally like the solution 1 + 3, direct action is detached at the top of the context menu and can be accessed directly (no context menu is showed) if one presses Shift (or Ctrl) while clicking.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alexandre Neto<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Régis Haubourg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr" target="_blank">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alister Hood wrote<br>
> Hi guys, <br>
<div class="im">> In this case I think rather than having a context menu dedicated just to<br>
> layer actions, it might be better eventually to have a more general<br>
> context menu, with actions in a submenu.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> I think context menus would be good everywhere ;)<br>
><br>
> For most people when a right-click does anything different from opening a<br>
> context menu they are surprised - assuming they even notice what it did.<br>
> If the right-click function is moved into a context menu then they will<br>
> know what it did, even if they didn't read the manual.<br>
><br>
> I guess getting rid of all direct right-click functions might upset some<br>
> existing users, because an extra click will be required for the same<br>
> function, but it will of course allow more functions to be added.<br>
><br>
> IIRC I think there is a recent proposal for context menus in the composer<br>
> - in a ticket or pull request for paste to original coordinates.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Alister<br>
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+1 with you alister. We could put that global target on 2.1 roadmap maybe.<br>
contextual menu are generally used for differents purposes:<br>
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1- access properties of the object you click in .<br>
for mapCanvas, you could have shortcuts to projection settings, project<br>
settings, current zoom and scale, refresh content, stop redraw. I think<br>
some shortcuts to render global options could be nice. I often have to play<br>
with antialiased rendering / number of objetcts to draw when displaying very<br>
large datasets. A shortcut could be nice. Do you see anything else.<br>
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2- actions under the click location (layers actions, plugins actions, finsh<br>
editing of a feature).<br>
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we must precisely decide what happens for editing use case, where right<br>
click is used today top finish an object.. Thoughts?<br>
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