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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: alan <at> idiocy.org, homeros.misasa <at> gmail.com, tkk <at> misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp, larsi <at> gnus.org, 50067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#50067: Context menus
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:29:46 +0200

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20 aug. 2021 kl. 09.29 skrev Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>:

> An example of such menu is mouse-buffer-menu bound to C-<down-mouse-1>
> where the user might wonder what do these menu items with mode names mean?

That's moot for macOS since C-mouse-1 will be used for the context menu. (Proposed patch attached.)

In macOS/NS, "titles" as disabled menu entries simply do not exist in the GUI vocabulary and look alien, amateurish, confusing or wrong. The menu is expected to be understood in its context of activation.

Where menus have titles, it's the corresponding entry in the parent menu (or menu bar). They are never named "something Menu" because that would be silly; typically it's a verb, or a noun setting a context for the entries in the sub-menu. For a menu of buffers to switch to, the title (if any) might be "Switch to buffer", "Buffer", "Switch to" or similar.

[0001-Use-C-mouse-1-for-context-menu-on-NS.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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