In “0004452: Unification of right-click context popup menus” submitted 2010, Doug Blank suggests more consistent Context Menus (varying according to each uniquely indicated object type in Gramps). Three years later in 0006390 (closed as a duplicate of the 2010 request), he suggest a centralized pop-maker.
There are a host of related requests:
| related to | 0007335 | confirmed | Cleanup code, filenames, and documentation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| related to | 0001640 | acknowledged | Add context menu items to main menu as not everybody knows about context menu. | |
| related to | 0001472 | confirmed | Quick View (reports) in person editor should be in first level of context menu and not hidden in sublevel | |
| related to | 0001639 | confirmed | make Set Home Person more accessible. (e.g. add to context menu) | |
| related to | 0011891 | acknowledged | Extended selection and ‘indicated’ makes Contextual pop-up menu behavior ambiguous | |
| has duplicate | 0006390 | closed | Create a centralized popup maker to standardize popups for each object | |
| related to | 0007283 | confirmed | Allow user to disable balloon help pop-ups | |
| related to | 0011140 | confirmed | Unification of right-click context popup menus | |
| related to | 0012022 | acknowledged | [People category] Some items in right-click context menu need to be gray out in Grouped People view |
Maybe the time has come. Chris Horn ( @cdhorn ) has created an extensively interwoven Context Menu system for his experimental CardView view modes. Maybe the menu generator could become a core method.
Currently, only the Person Editor and the Family Editor offer an object level context menu in the Header of the dialog. (And the Family Editor only offers Quick Views there.) This impedes Object focus navigation in all categories but Person.
Note:
Although the clipboard has focus navigation for Primary objects, it provides no context menus for secondary objects. This makes sense (considering the ambiguous context clips of text, attribute, address & such); but the “<object> ref” need more attention. It is frustrating to see a Ref and not be able to see the extra context or get to its parent object or its editor.