I agree with Phillipe that adding more menus, and therefore steps to get to items you need (key presses or mouse moves) and items to read is not an improvement.
I like the idea of a configurable palette (with some sensible defaults), much easier for beginners. This still requires use of the mouse, so for more advanced users, what do we think of introducing a "find/search"? Pressing ctrl+shift+a loads a pop-up search box, as you type it filters the list and you click/press enter on the one you want and it's added to the tree. On 12 December 2017 at 13:11, Philippe Mouawad <philippe.moua...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am personally against an additional level in the popup menu as it would > be a loss of time. > If it's about reorganizing the menu order to put most popular ones on top, > why not. > > A configurable palette in the right or bottom left (now we have dropped > workbench) might be a better alternative. User could put here the elements > he uses the most. > > Regards > > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Vincent HERILIER <vheril...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I already proposed a PR in that way ( >> https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/236) and I'm still interested in >> having the capability to group some elements ,per protocol class for >> example, to reduce the amount of different menus entries shown. >> >> Vincent >> >> Le mar. 12 déc. 2017 à 10:07, Antonio Gomes Rodrigues <ra0...@gmail.com> a >> écrit : >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > About advanced mode, some code has been written and maybe we need to >> remove >> > it and discuss again and finish it. >> > >> > Yes, it's hockey. >> > >> > >> > For the moment I have few free time but I probably write some blog post >> > (Apache provide blog) about some features. >> > >> > Thanks to the PR >> > >> > Antonio >> > >> > >> > 2017-12-11 21:00 GMT+01:00 Graham Russell <gra...@ham1.co.uk>: >> > >> > > Ah ok, I noticed something about advanced mode and wondered what it >> > meant, >> > > probably worth tidying up? >> > > >> > > I think those hotkeys should be more prominently documented, I only >> > > recently discovered them, or are there other shortcuts you were >> referring >> > > to? >> > > >> > > I will attempt a PR with a proof of concept in the coming week. >> > > >> > > Thanks >> > > >> > > Graham >> > > >> > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, 09:21 Antonio Gomes Rodrigues, <ra0...@gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > Sometime ago we have discuss to have an advanced mode with all >> options >> > > and >> > > > an basic mode with only the essentials. Unfortunately there was no >> > > > consensus >> > > > >> > > > For the moment we have shortcuts >> > > > >> > > > +1 for your solution >> > > > >> > > > Antonio >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > 2017-12-10 19:36 GMT+01:00 Graham Russell <gra...@ham1.co.uk>: >> > > > >> > > > > Hi all >> > > > > >> > > > > Currently the menus are ordered alphabetically, which is fine for >> > > > > small menus, and better than not at all for the large ones, >> however I >> > > > > think we can do better. >> > > > > >> > > > > If the menu has more than 4-5 items in it I think we should split >> it >> > > > > up into chunks of 5-7 with the most popular (e.g. HTTP Request >> > > > > Sampler) at the top. I hope this would ease a bit of RSI for users >> > and >> > > > > help improve the usability. >> > > > > >> > > > > Any thoughts? >> > > > > >> > > > > Having looked at the code it seems the menus are built by looking >> at >> > > > > the classes, does adding an annotation with "sort order" and maybe >> > > > > "group" make sense or is there a better way to dictate the order of >> > > > > items in the menus? >> > > > > >> > > > > Thanks >> > > > > >> > > > > Graham >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- > Cordialement. > Philippe Mouawad.
