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Bug 49441 - Property Sheet should provide Cut/Copy/Paste context menu on property value
Summary: Property Sheet should provide Cut/Copy/Paste context menu on property value
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Explorer (show other bugs)
Version: 4.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jaroslav Tulach
URL:
Keywords: UI
: 21901 43673 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-09-22 22:34 UTC by jhoffman
Modified: 2010-10-08 08:15 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description jhoffman 2004-09-22 22:34:54 UTC 
Competitive products allow me to right click
within the property sheet's property value field
to get a context menu containing the items:

* Cut
* Copy
* Paste
* Delete

The items are enabled/disabled as appropriate, but
Copy should always be enabled.

Also note that the Edit menu Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete
items do not apply to a value selected in a
property sheet.  In competitive products, you can
use the main menu Edit > Copy item to copy the
value of a property and then paste it into a text
file, for example.

Providing a context menu here would also address
existing issues 21901 and 43673 (unable to copy a
read only property value)
Comment 1 Martin Krauskopf 2004-11-23 15:52:30 UTC 
Since we will have a selection ability for particular properties (see
45704 issue) it shouldn't be a big problem to add others action
related to a single property to the popup menu.
But it would be probably considered by HIE (adding Dusan and others
interested).
Could you add your opinion Dusan? Thanks.
Comment 2 Martin Krauskopf 2004-11-23 15:56:12 UTC 
*** Issue 43673 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 Martin Krauskopf 2004-11-23 16:06:18 UTC 
*** Issue 21901 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 Martin Krauskopf 2004-11-23 16:08:12 UTC 
As Jeff Hoffman noted, see issue 21901 for interesting discussion, Ales.
Comment 5 Tomas Danek 2005-07-19 15:42:17 UTC 
IMHO, this enhancement would be very useful, however, and this discussion seems
to be over:-(
Comment 6 Jaroslav Tulach 2010-10-08 08:15:33 UTC 
Who's going to sponsor the development?