Closed Bug 126958 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Right click on button in toolbar that has an expand button does not always trigger the context menu to be opened

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: yesperduval, Assigned: trudelle)

Details

(Whiteboard: DUPEME)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020220 BuildID: 2002022003 This applies for the 'print' button (and all other toolbar buttons that have expand buttons) in all modules of Mozilla. Right clicking on them does not display the context menu, like it does when you right click in the 'back' or 'forward' button. The behaviour should be the same for all such buttons in mozilla. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click on the 'print' button in Navigator (or in any other module) Actual Results: No context menu for print button on right mouse click. Expected Results: Right click should display the context menu, ie. act like the user clicks in the expand button.
In fact, none of the buttons should have context menus.
Assignee: asa → trudelle
Component: Browser-General → XP Apps
QA Contact: doronr → sairuh
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Context Menu may be the wrong word. What I mean is that right clicking on the 'Back' button displays the menu that you also will get when you click the small arrow/triangle at the right side of the 'Back' button. Right clicking on the 'Print' button does not display this menu. This is also the case for the 'Get Msgs' button in the toolbar of the Mail module and the 'Print' button in the toolbar of the editor.
resolving as invalid. This is not a defect, since Back/Fwd buttons do have context menus, others don't.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Reopening this.. > This is not a defect, since Back/Fwd buttons do have context menus, others don't. Correct, but the Print button _has_ a context menu.. and right click doesn't work, while right click works with the back/fwd button
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Peter why did you close this bug?! Obviously, *all* buttons that have the the small triangle/arrow at the right side of the button have context menus. But instead of left-clicking on the little arrow, you can right click on the whole button to get the context menu for the Back and Forward buttons. But not for the Print, Get Msgs and the other buttons with context menus. This is neither consistent nor user friendly. All buttons with a context menu (e.g. the small down arrow) should be "right-clickable" to display the context menu, as well as being "left-clickable" on the arrow itself.
The arrow in the button denotes an affordance for the button's menu, which is *not* a context menu. Back/Fwd buttons just happen to also have a context menu which has the same contents, but that doesn't mean that all such buttons have to display the same menus in response to right-click. In fact, it is perfectly normal for these menu/buttons to have no context menu, or even a context menu which is completely different from the drop-down menu. We should not add one merely to be like the back/fwd buttons, as this precludes future introduction of a real context menu. ->invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Depends on: 812894
No longer depends on: 812894
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