On 14 September 2010 21:17, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:59:54 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
Le 14/09/2010 00:57, Lex Trotman a écrit :
On 14 September 2010 00:39, ntrel@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
[...] Remove 3 popup menu items to save space: Find Document Usage because Find Usage can be used instead.
Gives a lot of rubbish I didn't want, but can live with it.
I'd also have kept this one, moreover because it's tedious to reproduce it (needs to open find dialog, then select the right search type), but its not really big deal (even though it's sometime hard to find the right match when all opened files appears.
Go to Tag Declaration because Go to Tag Definition is more common.
Hi Nick,
Dissagree strongly about removing go to tag declaration.
Goto tag declaration is very much used in C++ because it gets the whole class declaration, not just the implementation of the specific function. To find the class in the symbols list I have to remember its name which is often not visible at the point of function use. And of course overloaded functions can have several declarations in several classes.
I can see the point for C but it is very useful for other languages.
Even though I haven't the verve Lex had on this, I wonder if I won't miss it. And again, is there an easy way to reproduce its comportment? I don't find this in any other menu.
Of course. I wouldn't remove menu items without putting them somewhere else. They're in the Search menu. (And available with keybindings).
Ok, I missed that change.
I can't find anywhere where this change was discussed with users, but maybe thats just my search fu.
I doubt it was discussed, and I perfectly understand it. I don't think Nick thought it worth a complex discussion with the "community" for removing 3 items. But huh, it seems to haven't pleased everybody :)
People used to looking in a certain place would rather it was kept. But the popup menu was *far too big*.
Total ACK, just disagreeing about *which* bits should be removed :-)
The bug item was wrongly reported at geany-plugins: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1056535&aid=3044798...
Go to Line because the toolbar item can be used instead.
For this one I completely agree. I don't know why it was there since it's in the find menu, have a shortcut by default, and I don't think it's a contextual action.
This said, I'd personally rather removed the three "insert" sub-menus: they exists in the edit menu, and I never used them from the contextual menu.
Good suggestion, I completely agree.
I would expect these to be used far less than the find actions, so
I use 'Insert Comments' a lot. The Format and Commands are editing things, and as submenus pack a lot of functionality into a small space. The popup menu is for quicker access to editing things.
Popups are context menus, they should present all common functions related to the current context, ie the position the cursor goes to when the right button is clicked. That means not just edit commands, also search or others that relate to the current context. (see Gnome HIG)
Cheers Lex
there is less loss in not having them in the context menu compared to the find options, especially as they actually exist somewhere else (the edit menu) and the find options don't.
If you really want to take the find options out of the context menu, why not put them in the search menu, though the context menu makes more sense since they relate to the current cursor position.
I put them in the Search menu before this commit.
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