Right-click in Control Board

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Stephen

Right-click in Control Board

Post by Stephen »

Hello,

Atlantis has been making great progress lately and all who contributed to the effort are to be congratulated.

I really like the control board feature but was wondering whether a right-click function could be added, at least when "Styles" are active in the Control Board. Thus, one could right-click a style and choose "modify style" without having the go the the bottom of the Control Board and click the button for modifying the style. A minor feature, but in my opinion one that would improve usability.

Thanks in advance for considering this request.
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Each panel of the Control Board has a context toolbar with the commands specific to this panel. As things stand, none of the panels has a right-click menu (except the “Headings” panel which offers global commands through its right-click menu not available through the toolbar). In most cases, clicking a toolbar button is even simpler than choosing a command from a menu. A single click is needed to activate a command through a toolbar button. For choosing a command from the menu, you need two clicks (a right button click and a left button click). So it is a question whether the right-click menu is a preferable way to access these commands. In any case, things should be designed in a consistent way: either all the toolbar commands of all panels are also offered through the right-click menus, or none.
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