Talk:Menu cleanup: Difference between revisions

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Is right-click so unknown?

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 — Alex Limi, 2009-09-15
+: Alex: I am not as sure that so few people use the context menu. Jensen Harris found [http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/09/16/468365.aspx the reverse to be true]: that even novices nowadays use it. Perhaps a user study should be dedicated to this question. If contextual menus are, in fact, commonly used, it would have powerful ramifications for the re-design. Instead of cramming contextual actions into the Page menu, they could be left in the contextual menus—and only there. The result would be a big Hick’s Law win: the Page menu now has fewer items to choose from, and each action can now be found in one and only one location.
+: This would also allow a cleaner and more logical separation between menus (as I have [[Talk:Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups#Menus_.C3.97_3|previously described]]): the Application menu (whatever it’s called) shows items contextual to the whole Application, the Page menu shows items contextual to the page as a whole, and the context menu shows items contextual to objects under the pointer (selections, images, links, toolbar buttons, etc.).