https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169041

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
            Summary|Shape keeps being selected, |Separate opening the
                   |if object being selected by |context menu of an object
                   |Right Click and left        |from its selection
                   |clicked outside the shape   |
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise@lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org

--- Comment #2 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
It's not an outlandish suggestion.

In fact, there is some inconsistency about this choice between different
applications, and usage scenarios in those applications.

For example: in Telegram, right-clicking and even choosing an action on the
context menu of one message does not clear a selection in another message.

In CLion/IntelliJ IDEA, if you have one file selected in the file list but
right-click another - the right-clicked file is selected.

In Inkscape, if you select one shape and right-click another - the
right-clicked shape gets selected.

My question to you would be: Within selecting the right-clicked shape, how
would the user know _which_ shape it is that they selected? That's not as
trivial a question as you might imagine, because you may have, for example, two
squares which intersect; if you show the selection rectangle, you know you have
one rather than the other; but otherwise - you might be guessing. And since
your action is relevant to the right-clicked object, it's a problem if you
don't know which one it is.

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