[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128695] New: Create a command to open context menu, bindable to keyboard shortcuts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128695

            Bug ID: 128695
           Summary: Create a command to open context menu, bindable to
                    keyboard shortcuts
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: needsUXEval
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: UI
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mikekaganski at hotmail.com

LibreOffice context menu could contain elements not available using other means
(e.g., from standard menu). One example is the context menu shown when
right-clicking to an auto-marked spelling error, which shows replacement
suggestions and quick actions (Add to dictionary; Always correct to; ...),
which relate to the selected word, and otherwise are only available using Spell
Checking (F7) which would not check the selection only, but instead check the
whole document, i.e. the user would have a totally different workflow.

Some OSes provide ways to show the context menus (e.g., using a dedicated
button [1], or Shift+F10 on Windows), which could bring the menu when using
keyboard only. Yet, some OSes lack this functionality: specifically, macOS [2],
which seems to assume that normal menus should provide 100% of what is
available in context menus.

The suggestion is to add an UNO command to bring the context menu in the text
cursor's place, so that it could be configurable in the customized key
bindings.

See [3] for the real-life question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key
[2]
https://superuser.com/questions/662175/context-menu-right-click-keyboard-shortcut-in-mac-os-x#662464
[3]
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/216515/is-there-a-keyboard-shortcut-for-selecting-spelling-suggestions/

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