Big or small, this is not a bug; it is entirely a fact of GNOME's design, quite possibly backed by usability research. It is mirrored by similar behaviour across the Gnome desktop environment and supported applications. Note, for example, that you can operate a menu in a single click by clicking, scrubbing across the menu and releasing the mouse button. You can open a menu in a GTK menu bar using any mouse button.
The specific behaviour you mention (right clicking menu items to activate them) is also the case in most operating systems I have personally used, including Windows and MacOS. The unusual, unexpected behaviour would be to limit interaction to left clicks. If you consider this a usability issue, please feel free to discuss it upstream: http://mail.gnome.org/ This type of design debate is very complex and does not make a good papercut. Even when the technical implementation appears straight-forward, the implications for usability need to be researched extensively. It is not a simple task. Simple is "password field uses stars instead of dots," for example ;) Please see this page for an up to date definition: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut Thank you! ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: New => Invalid -- right clicking activate context menu entry https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283644 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
