Hi all,
It's nice to see some healthy discussion on this. Lemme give some use
scenario which works great in windows but AFAIK is no counter-part in GNOME
atleast.
a) I do lot of picture uploads to few picture-sharing sites. There are
programs which add context-right menu so that when I right-click on the
images I get the option of uploading them to that site. It uploads & after
couple of mins, firefox opens up with the no. of links.
b)Similarly there are programs which do batch conversion of images so in
explorer or on the desktop I can right-click & do the needful. No need to go
hunting around either in the Start Menu or down below in the panel.
Lastly, Having multiple panels is also not a good idea IMHO.As it is the
screen space gets limited (even though I have a 17" CRT monitor) . I'm no
expert at all under GNOME & there maybe programs which do make it possible
to use right-click context menu but I haven't found any so far.
I do believe it would be a good thing if the right-click menu would be
opened up so third-party developers could add that feature to their software
making it a better/intuitive experience for users. I have been using
computers for last 10 years while using GNOME for only a month & do have a
few clients to whom I give support. This is just not my <rant> but something
which quite a few of them have found out.
So please think about it & lemme know if its still a bad idea.
--
Shirish Agarwal
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