SUGGESTION: expand right-click context menu

What's the reasoning behind having a scrolling right-click 'context menu'? Confused I think this is the first one I have ever encountered in a Windows environment (going back to 3.0). It's not as though there's not enough screen space to accommodate showing the whole list...

My difficulties with the current right-click context menu are:

1. important (to me) items are hidden off the bottom of the scroll list;

2. the scroll bar blends in such that it is easily missed by someone not expecting one in a context menu;

3. it attempts to break new ground where there is already an accepted standard (i.e., the hierarchical nature of context menus across all major OSes ["Context menus are sometimes hierarchically organized, allowing navigation through different levels of the menu structure. The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry. This makes it possible to quickly repeat an action with the parameters of the previous execution, and to better separate options from actions." (emphasis mine)]).

If you don't want to expand the context menu to show all items all the time (rather than scrolling to get to some), you could easily return to the standard by making the 'Search' items (5 of them!) available in a sub-menu by hovering over or clicking an arrow on the parent item (i.e., Search).

I would find a non-scrolling context menu a big improvement in my Logos experience!

Thanks for listening to 'suggestions'.

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Veli Voipio

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Doc B

a scrolling right-click 'context menu

You left out the part about it being hard on beginners and old folks.

Beginners because they don't know where stuff is in the first place, and not being able to see it on top makes doing things frustrating; and,

Old folks because we forget where it was; we need to be able to see what's there when a popup pops up.

So, [y][y]

Now, where'd I put my glasses?

SineNomine

Faithlife, please at least give us the option to choose between the present situation and a non-scrolling context menu.

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735408#Comment_735408

I would actually prefer a scrolling menu rather than a click-to-expand menu. If hover-to-expand would work (and work FAST/Instantly), I would be happy with that as well. I simply don't want the bother of needing to execute extra clicks.

I do agree that it needs to be made much more obvious that more is there!

Paul Unger

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735428#Comment_735428

I would actually prefer a scrolling menu rather than a click-to-expand menu. If hover-to-expand would work (and work FAST/Instantly), I would be happy with that as well. I simply don't want the bother of needing to execute extra clicks.

It shouldn't require an extra click. I'm thinking of behaviour similar to that of, say, Firefox: click a Menu item (e.g. View), find one with an arrow (e.g., Toolbars), hover for a millisecond, and choose the item you want (e.g., Menu Bar). Many many programs use this method of 'nesting' menu items; so many that it's hard to think of any that don't... So with a redesigned context menu (as per the suggestion): right click, hover over Search, and choose 'all resources'. This should actually involve less clicking for many users (and I would count scrolling as a click, since it requires use of a mouse button--either a scroll wheel or a click (+ drag) of the scroll bar)--right now on my screen, 'all resources' is off the bottom of the scroll list...

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735428#Comment_735428

I do agree that it needs to be made much more obvious that more is there!

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