[Qgis-developer] Possible improvement | Actions on right click

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi, 
+1 with Mathieu, actual action button needs to first choose an active layer
and then to choose which action to execute on click. 

Using right click might be intersting since it could be always available,
whatever the tool selected. 
Another possibility is Mapinfo 's behaviour that we copied in Hotlink Plugin
(in repository). 

User has to choose hotlink tool (a thunder icon). On flyover, a tooltip show
up with the list of all action titles located under the mouse cursor ( +
display field info), for ALL layers. 
On click, a dropdown listbox shows up allowing to choose what action to
execute. 

I agree that starting having a right clic contextual menu would be better
since user do not have to change his current tool. The downside, it will
give the habits of right clicking everywhere (composer too) and we should
have a global discussion about contextual menus in QGIS, so that we have a
consistent UI behaviour everywhere.
régis



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