Re: GNOME HIG: Feedback Wanted

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> Another question. On the header bar menus page:
>
> "Header bar menus are not a good choice for performing actions on
> selected content: when content hasn't been selected, the menu will
> contain unhelpful insensitive menu items, when it has been selected,
> possible actions will not be advertised."
>
> This makes me think that it would be good to remove the
> Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste items from the header bar menu in Epiphany,
> since they'll usually be disabled, and they're more accessible through a
> context menu or a keyboard shortcut.
>
> You then say: "Selection mode or popovers are a better choice for this
> situation." Which makes me think, oops, maybe you weren't talking about
> selecting text in a text field after all.
...

The ambition was to provide a popover that's shown when text is
selected, as a generic part of how text selections are handled [1].
That's definitely a gap in the existing application designs.

That said, that page should provide clearer guidance in this regard -
I'll look into it.

Thanks,

Allan

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Selections#Tentative_Design