Is one of the objectives of v3 starting to steer away from right-click context menu's?
In many locations they currently have been replaced by a left click on a 'menu drop down' icon.
(which is not actually a benefit in the sense of the number of clicks)
I could imagine this is being done for the possible benefit of using MB on touch screens such as phones and tablets?
(although I believe holding your finger/pen on an entry for 1 sec. is an often used equivalent for opening a context menu)
The reason I bring this up is that at the current state v3 is in, these different concepts are now slightly mingling.
I have no strong feelings about this at the moment, and it might be just be because a natural impulse of 'holding on to what you are used to, but my feelings about this:
In the current version of v3 we now have:
- bars that have a right-click context menu
- bars where you must left click on the drop-down arrow to get the menu
- bars where neither is doing anything, but you must go to a preferences panel to make adjustments
Personally I believe a bit more consistency in this would be good.
I myself lean towards having right-click context menu's as much as possible. I wouldn't mind having those at all applicable title bars or other applicable items.
Most users are probably also already quite used to that, and it keeps the title bars much cleaner, without having the new 'drop-down arrows'.
Maybe it would be good to always have left-clicking a bar just working as a toggle switch for different views (with possibly a maximum of three states), without menus popping up (just like how sorting the contents of a column already works), and a right click would open more available options.
And another thought: for bars or panes where you would like to have access to more options, I believe nowadays 'the three dots' (I don't know what they are usually called) are used in Windows Phone. (and perhaps also in W10 tablet mode?)
(I believe Android uses the 'hamburger' for this, three small horizontal bars on top of each-other)
Maybe for platform-wide consistency, a version of the three dots could be an option to implement in v3 for applicable situations?