Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote: > Another question. On the header bar menus page: > > "Header bar menus are not a good choice for performing actions on > selected content: when content hasn't been selected, the menu will > contain unhelpful insensitive menu items, when it has been selected, > possible actions will not be advertised." > > This makes me think that it would be good to remove the > Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste items from the header bar menu in Epiphany, > since they'll usually be disabled, and they're more accessible through a > context menu or a keyboard shortcut. > > You then say: "Selection mode or popovers are a better choice for this > situation." Which makes me think, oops, maybe you weren't talking about > selecting text in a text field after all. ...
The ambition was to provide a popover that's shown when text is selected, as a generic part of how text selections are handled [1]. That's definitely a gap in the existing application designs. That said, that page should provide clearer guidance in this regard - I'll look into it. Thanks, Allan [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Selections#Tentative_Design _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
