[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128814] New: Navigator: right-clicking on any item should bring context menu as right-clicking the item in document, not custom navigator menu

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128814

            Bug ID: 128814
           Summary: Navigator: right-clicking on any item should bring
                    context menu as right-clicking the item in document,
                    not custom navigator menu
           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

Currently, right-clicking on most items shown in Navigator a custom menu is
shown, with elements specific to Navigator (e.g., in Writer, these are "Outline
Level", "Drag Mode", and "Display"). These elements are not related to the
clicked item, and control the settings of Navigator itself. For *some*
elements, e.g. Tables, additional item is appended, specific to the element,
but not identical to what is shown when right-clicking he object.

The suggestion is to make Navigator-specific menu only shown when whitespace is
right-clicked in Navigator; and make it show normal object context menu when an
object is right-clicked. That would e.g. make it easier to control frames that
are hard to select (e.g., because of their wrap mode and arrangement). If
needed, items like "Delete" or "Select" could be added; and where there's no
item-specific context menu (as with tables), such a menu could be composed
exclusively for Navigator (like is done now, only without irrelevant items).

See [1] for an example where that would likely be handy (a user could use
right-click menu on frames in Navigator to control, e.g. cut (and undo when
needed), and clearly see which object is that; "Select" would be even better).

[1]
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/217319/how-do-i-remove-an-image-from-the-page-footer-in-writer/

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