97063 - Ergonomic and specific context menu for form editing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75338

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Pierre Chanial]

The current context menu for editing forms contains 15 items and 5 separators.
This a way too much complicated (thus useless)
I think a context menu specific to the form editing is needed by simplest
ergonomy requirements (no more than 7 items visible at once)

What about:
+-------------------+
|Cut                |
|Copy               |
|Paste              |
|Select All         |
|-------------------|----------+
|Form...           >|Prefill   |
+-------------------|Save Data |
		    |View Data |
		    |Help      |
		    +----------+

Notes:
- Cut/Copy/Paste before Select All since they are used more frequently and
because a quadruple click should do it as well (bug 97053)
- Form items should be hidden since they not frequently used. 
- A help on form should be nice since the form manager is a new feature.
- If the user wants Back/Forwrd/Reload, etc, with a context menu, he should be
enabled to right click on a part of the lay-out that is not a form.
- cascading menu for the form suffers from bug 67955 that reports the fact that
right clicking again on |Form...  >| will not permanently open the submenu.
Hovering outside the submenu and the |Form... >| item will close it.

Comment 1

[Markus Gerstel]

This is "a good idea" (TM) =)

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

Version 2 proposal:
+-----------+
|Copy       |
|Cut        |
|Paste      |
+-----------|
|Select All |
|Undo       |
|-----------|----------+
|Forms...  >|Prefill   |
+-----------|Save Data |
            |View Data |
            |Help      |
	    +----------+

- Copy before cut (unwanted dataloss)
- Undo: if dataloss, unexperienced user will recover his/her edits
- Forms... instead of Form... (not sure what is the best)

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

This bug and bug 97069 appear to be duplicates of bug 75338. Several draft
context menu specs have already been posted there. The ideas suggested in this
bug are good though, you should repost them there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75338 ***

Comment 4

[:deanis74]

vrfy dupe