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Bug 49441

Summary:	Property Sheet should provide Cut/Copy/Paste context menu on property value
Product:	platform	Reporter:	jhoffman <jhoffman>
Component:	Explorer	Assignee:	Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	benway, dpavlica, dsimonek, musilt2, raccah, saubrecht, tboudreau
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	UI
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

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?