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Seamonkey	UI Specification
Context Menus Overview send feedback to the component specific newsgroup	Last Modification:

Author German W. Bauer  Initial Creation Date:  20 Sep 1999	Status: Implemetable Framework Specification
What's related:  Design Overview Design Cheatsheet Design Details  Specific Application Menus: Navigator main menu specification (under construction) Messenger main menu specificaton	Feature Team

Older spec, will be updated

Summary/Overview

This document desribe the cross-platform (and where possible cross-application) context menu structure. It attempts to show all context menus in one place so we can coordinate structure and appearance

Design Goals

Keep the menu structure consistent across apps, platforms.
Apply logical structure.

The scope of the task is roughly similar to 4.x, but context menus did grow out of proportion in recent releases. Rather than allowing access to the whole apps functionality they should focus on the most commonly used actions that are possible with the given selected/moused over object.

Target Audience

The target user for this feature are medium advanced Seamonkey that are familiar with right-clicking Win32, Linux) or control-clicking (MacOS) to invoke context/selection sensitive commands.

 

User Tasks

 

Fundamental Tasks Intermediate Tasks Advanced Tasks Apply actions to selected object underneath at mouse position 'Cue card' for what can be done to that object

Design Cheatsheet

General Design

Legend:

Keyboard shortcuts combined with Ctrl(Win), Cmd(Mac) or Alt(Linux) are marked like this
Keyboard shortcuts to be used stand-alone are marked like this
Notes are marked like this
Keyboard mnemonics (Win, Linux) are marked like this

Navigator

Editing Functions (if any)

Actions to inner object

Actions to container object

Object Properties

Content area	Selected Text	Link	Image	Form/Input Field (text)
Back Forward Reload    R  Stop   Mac .  Others Esc  Save Background As... Save Page As...    S  Print Page...    P  Add Page To Bookmarks Create Desktop Shortcut Send Page.. Page Source    U  Page Info    I	Copy    C  Select All    A  Save Page As...    S  Print Page...    P  Add Page To Bookmarks Create Desktop Shortcut Send Page.. Page Source    U  Page Info    I	Copy Link Location Select All    A  Open Link In New Window Add Link To Bookmarks Save Link As... Save Page As...    S  Print Page...    P  Add Page To Bookmarks Create Desktop Shortcut Send Page.. Link Properties	Copy Image     C  Copy Image Location Select All    A  View Image In New Window Save Image As... Save Page As...    S  Print Page...    P  Add Page To Bookmarks Create Desktop Shortcut Send Page.. Image Properties	Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Paste    V  Delete    Del Select All    A

Selected Folder in Bookmarks List	Selected Bookmark in Bookmarks List	Selected Separtor in Bookmarks List	Anywhere else in Bookmarks List
Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Paste    V  Delete    Del Select All    A  Open In New Window Rename... Start Bookmarks Menu Here Add New Bookmarks Here New Bookmark New Subfolder... New Separation Line Search Bookmarks...    Shift-F  Folder Properties	Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Paste    V  Delete    Del Select All    A  Open In New Window Rename... New Bookmark New Folder... New Separation Line Search Bookmarks...    Shift-F  Bookmark Properties	Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Paste    V  Delete Separation Line    Del Select All    A  New Bookmark New Folder... New Separation Line Search Bookmarks...    Shift-F	Select All    A  View List > Reload List Search Bookmarks...    Shift-F  List Properties View List > Unsorted Sorted By Name Sorted By URL Address Sorted By Keyword Sorted By Date Added A > Z Sort Order Z > A Sort Order

Selected Folder in History List	Selected Bookmark in History List	Anywhere else in History List
Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Delete Folder    Del Select All    A  Open In New Window Search Previously Visited Sites...    Shift-F  Folder Properties	Undo    Z  Redo   Mac  Shift-Z Others  Y   Cut    X  Copy    C  Delete Item    Del Select All    A  Open In New Window Search Previously Visited Sites...    Shift-F  Bookmark Properties	Select All    A  View List > Reload List Search Previously Visited Sites...    Shift-F  List Properties View List > Unsorted Sorted By Name Sorted By URL Address Sorted By Date Added A > Z Sort Order Z > A Sort Order

Mail

Editing Functions (if any)

Actions to inner object

Actions to container object

Object Properties

Content area	Selected Text	Link	Image
Open In New Window Edit As New... New Message Reply to Sender Reply All Forward Open Attachment > Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Delete Add Sender To Address Book Add All To Address Book	Copy    C  Select All    A  Reply to Sender Reply All Forward Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Delete	Copy Link Location Open Link In New Window Save Link As... Add Link To Bookmarks Link Properties	Copy Image     C  Copy Image Location View Image In New Window Save Image As... Image Properties

Envelope area (mail)	Selected Address (mail)	Envelope area (news)	Selected Address (news)	Ind. Attachment
New Message Reply to Sender Reply All Forward Open Attachment   > Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Delete Add Sender To Address Book Add All To Address Book	New Message To <name> Reply to <name> Reply All Forward Open Attachment   > Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Delete Add <name> To Address Book Add All To Address Book	Reply To Sender Reply To Newsgroup Reply To Sender/Newsgroup Forward Open Attachment   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Cancel Add Sender To Address Book Add All to Address Book	Reply to <name> Reply To Newsgroup Reply To <name>/Newsgroup Forward Open Attachment   > Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Cancel Add <name> To Address Book Add All To Address Book	Open... Open With... Save As... Attachment Properties... Open/Open With... would require registry lookup to see whether we can handle this mime type, sort of like when a link is clicked. Can we do this?

Thread View	Ind. Message (mail)	Mult. sel. Messages (mail)	Ind. Message (news)	Mult. sel. Messages (news)
	Open In New Window Edit As New... Reply to Sender Reply All Forward Move To   > Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Delete Add Sender To Address Book Add All To Address Book	Forward Messages Attached Move To   > Copy To   > Print ...    P  Delete	Open In New Window Edit As New... Reply To Sender Reply To Newsgroup Reply To Sender/Newsgroup Forward Copy To   > Save As...    S  Print ...    P  Cancel Ignore Thread     K  Watch Thread	Forward Messages Attached Copy To   > Print ...    P  Cancel

Folder View	Mail Server (Folder View)	News Server (Folder View)	Generic Mail Folder (Folder View)	Newsgroup (Folder View)
	Get Messages For Account Rename Account Remove Account New Folder... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Account Properties... (this should go to account setup with the appropriate mail server selected)	Rename News Account Remove News Account Subscribe... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Account Properties... (this should go to account setup with the appropriate news server selected)	Open In New Window Rename Folder... Remove Folder New Subfolder... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Folder Properties	Open In New Window Unsubscribe From Newsgroup... Mark Newsgroup Read Subscribe... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Newsgroup Properties

	Inbox Folder (Folder View)	Trash Can Folder (Folder View)	Sent, Draft,Templates Folders (Folder View)	Unsent Messages Folder (Folder View)
	Open In New Window New Subfolder... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Inbox Properties	Open In New Window Empty This Trash Can Now New Subfolder... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Trash Can Properties	Open In New Window Remove Folder New Subfolder... Search Messages...    Shift-F  <name> Folder Properties	Open In New Window Send Unsent Messages... Search Messages...    Shift-F  Unsent Folder Properties

 

Message Composition	Subject Field	Content Area (anywhere in body of message, nothing specific selected)	Content Area (specific content selected)
	Cut Copy Paste Delete	Paste Link Target Image Horizontal Line Table > Character Properties Paragraph/List Properties Page Properties	Cut Copy Paste Delete Link Target Image Horizontal Line Table > Character Properties Paragraph/List Properties Page Properties