https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62745

--- Comment #2 from Ryo Furue <[email protected]> ---
Thank you for your input.

> In my opinion this not a bug.
> Which kind of context menu appears
> depends on the word on which you double-click.
> If this word is correct, then the normal context
> menu appears.  If this word has a typing error,
> then the spellchecker context menu appears.

First of all, let's NOT ask whether this is a bug or not.  Let's ask whether
this is a desirable behavior.  I don't think it is.  My argument is as follows.

There are TONS of applications---browsers, text editors, drawing tools,
presentation software, PDF viewers, etc.---on which you can select a portion of
text, right-click on it, and copy it to the clipboard.  Think about it.  There
are TONS of them.  Users, including me, are used to the behavior.  That's a
very, very common behavior.  You can say it's "the" standard behavior.  As far
as I know, LibreOffice Impress is the only application that sometimes fails to
offer a "copy" option on a text selection.  You can imagine how irritating that
is.

So, please include "copy" and "cut" (or "delete") in the context menu, even
when spellchecker kicks in.

Second, what you say is not entirely true.

> If this word is correct, then the normal context
> menu appears.  If this word has a typing error,
> then the spellchecker context menu appears.

What I experience is different.  Write a piece of text containing several
misspelled words and correct ones.  By mouse-dragging, choose a portion of the
text and right-click on it.  If the selection is a single misspelled word, the
spellchecker menu always appears, as you describe.  But, if the selection
includes both correct and misspelled words, the spellchecker menu appears in
some cases and the normal menu (including "copy") appears in other cases. 
Which menu appears seems to be random to me. (I don't understand the rules that
determines it.)

So, the current behavior is worse than you describe.  We can call this part "a
bug", I think.  But, even if it's not a bug, the behavior needs fixing.

Third, is it a good idea to have the spellchecker menu on right-click?  I think
it's too much intrusion.  Think about a situation where there are foreign
personal names the dictionary doesn't know and you want to copy a portion of
text including those names.  The intrusion of spellchecker is simply annoying.

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