Hi Fab, Thanks for writing this. I agree with you, and I think much of the Ubiquity development team will too; the actual history of why the context menu wasn't featured in 0.1.2 is a bit muddled, and the unfortunate fact is that it was actually almost an accident! The code for noun-first suggestions was massively slowing down Ubiquity's command-line interface, so we disabled it at the last minute for 0.1.2, and it unfortunately also meant that the context menu was disabled because it depended on the noun-first-suggestion functionality. I definitely agree that it should be worked on, and Aza's been doing some of this in his spare time--check this out if you haven't yet seen it:
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/can-ubiquity-be-used-only-with-the-mouse/ Thanks again for your comments! - Atul On 1/2/09 6:51 AM, Soloren2001 wrote: > I've read several of the post about the contextual menu. From previous > posts (sept 2008) I understand it was sort of abandonned for the time > being. I fail to agree with the arguments presented. > > When I first learned about Ubiquity I was absolutely swept away. > However, at first it didn't work very well on my computer. Some > commands worked. Others did not. > > Yet I have forgotten it was even there very rapidly. And I forgot to > use it even when it could have been handy. > > This why I think that a contextual menu is very important. > > I know that a of work was put in the natural language interface and is > an amazing achievement. But simplicity is always the hardest to > achieve and contextual menu is just that! > > Additionnally, I think both can work hand in hand. I think that > Ubiquity's contextual menu would only need a basic list of mash-up > commands (such as translation or mapping). The contextual list could > be customized by the user so that it offers the commands he needs the > most. > > I fear that IE 8 with it's "accelerators" or "KallOut" could steal the > spotlight from "Ubiquity" that truly deserves better. I think a > contextual menu is tantamount to making Ubiquity a tool for the > general public. And perhaps also to make Firefox more mainstream as > well. > > Fab > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
