James, R U trying to copy and paste contents from the menu list?
May I ask what your objective is in performing a copy & paste. I think that by explaining your objective and "user-case" scenario would better help the Jenkins "owners" understand your frustration. Kind Regards, Mgimza On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM, <matthew.web...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote: > Agreed. I find the inability to copy text from the web interface > particularly frustrating.**** > > ** ** > > I don’t want to be too critical of the Jenkins developers – we all benefit > from the work a lot of people put in to drive the product forward, but I > think we have to accept that sometimes well-intentioned ideas turn out to > be bad ones, and I think the menu changes are in that category. We’ve all > done things that later on turned out not to be so good. Or maybe some > people like the new menus?**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto: > jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nord, James > *Sent:* 09 November 2012 16:30 > *To:* jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* dynamic popup memus**** > > ** ** > > Arrghhh!**** > > **** > > Well now that’s got your attention/back up[1] I would like to provide some > feedback as to why I’m saying “Arrghhh” and the uses cases that I find are > now killed because of it.**** > > **** > > I constantly find myself cutting and pasting bits of info from Jenkins to > place elsewhere and half way through selecting the piece of information I > need the popup menu appears – and this causes the selection to be > deselected – so when the mouse is still moving to select some more bits you > end up with the first bit selected no longer being in the selection :-o*** > * > > (this gets even worse when using a track pad rather than a mouse as you > need to re-position your finger – so selection takes even longer than it > would with a mouse)**** > > **** > > The other is I know where the menu is relative to a co-ordinate so I may > move my mouse without speed to the link I want.**** > > When I do this without looking – (well you touch type so why not touch > mouse!) you sometimes get a popup whilst the mouse is moving and select an > item from the popup not the link that is now hidden by the popup.**** > > **** > > They do not disappear with the same stimulus method that enabled them to > appear (that is you can not dismiss them by moving the mouse) (which is > what the weather ones allow you to do – they disappear as soon as you mouse > out of the weather icon – or popup). Even the weather popup can get > obtrusive at times (think a folder with many jobs under it).**** > > **** > > I have also found (but can’t recall on which tooltip) that I wanted to get > a “tooltip” (I think it was estimated time left of a build job) and the > tooltip was then covered up by the popup menu – rendering the tooltip > unreadable.**** > > **** > > Note things may have moved on as I am on LTS. Chrome is the brower of > choice…**** > > **** > > /James**** > > **** > > [1] delete as applicable**** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > > > > ************************************************************************************** > This message is confidential and intended only for the addressee. If you > have received this message in error, please immediately notify the > postmas...@nds.com and delete it from your system as well as any copies. > The content of e-mails as well as traffic data may be monitored by NDS for > employment and security purposes. To protect the environment please do not > print this e-mail unless necessary. > > NDS Limited. Registered Office: One London Road, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 > 4EX, United Kingdom. A company registered in England and Wales. Registered > no. 3080780. VAT no. GB 603 8808 40-00 > > ************************************************************************************** > **** > > > > -- > > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or > privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If > you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the > addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not > use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to > the e-mail. > Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and > not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. > Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any > attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any > damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be > transmitted in or with the message. > Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England > and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and > Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom > > >
