[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 and Firefox 4

[Colin Law]

On 23 May 2011 12:28, Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> See
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/748850
>> which covers both right and middle click.  It was supposed to have
>> been fixed a couple of days ago so presumably the fix will appear
>> soon.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> The bug hasn't been fixed, but somebody changed the status for the fun
> of it.
>
> This doesn't work because it just isn't supported at all by dbusmenu and
> unity. Note, that while we want to introduce modifier state in to the
> dbusmenu protocol (so that CTRL+click and SHIFT+click work properly), we
> won't be adding right-click support (ie, the context menu isn't coming
> back). AFAIK, Firefox was the only application to support this, and no
> other GTK application did. We want the menus to behave consistently
> across applications rather than having users open the menu and wondering
> whether right-clicking will perform the action under the pointer or open
> a context menu instead.

I can understand the issue with right click providing a context menu
as that is rather unusual.  However to only have the importance marked
as 'Wish List' for the Ctrl Click to open in a new tab, which is a
useful feature that has been present in Ubuntu/FF and is now lost,
seems too low an importance.  I imagine that at the moment anything
marked as just Wish List is unlikely to get done in the near future.

Can you confirm whether the mods to fix it in Unity would also fix it
in Unity-2D?

Colin