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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Orson,

I like this is behavior lot better.  The hotkey behavior is much closer
to the legacy canvas.  You may want to wait for feedback from the folks
who prefer to select everything.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 7/31/2017 4:48 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> I think I got the right solution that would work for everyone. In case
> there was nothing selected before a right click, then the selection
> should be cleared after the context menu is shown (no matter whether
> cancelled or used).
> It is coherent with the hot keys behavior and allows the user to apply
> both working methods: either select items and decide on action or
> execute an action for a pointed item. I attach the patch for comments.
> 
> Cheers,
> Orson
> 
> On 07/20/2017 07:22 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I've finally forced myself to start using the GAL canvas for new
>> projects and I immediately ran into an unexpected behavior regarding
>> context menus.  If I right click on an object, it gets selected and the
>> context menu for that object is shown as expected.  If I change my mind
>> and close the context menu with the escape key, the context menu
>> disappears.  So far so good but here is where things get ugly.  The
>> object from the canceled context menu is still selected so if I move the
>> cursor to a different object and right click, the context menu from the
>> previously (still) selected object appears and selecting a command from
>> the context menu will be performed on the object at the first right
>> click position rather than the object the cursor is currently over.
>> This seems broken to me.  I have to hit the escape key a second time to
>> deselect the initial object selection.  Is this the behavior we really
>> want?  I would expect that the initial object would have been deselected
>> when I aborted the context menu (or performed a command on the selected
>> object) so the next right click would select the new object.  With the
>> current behavior, I have to hit the escape key a second time to deselect
>> the original selection.  Anyone who has been following the dev mailing
>> list for any amount of time knows how much I dislike additional steps to
>> accomplish a task.  This falls under that category in a big way.  Can
>> this be changed to mimic the behavior of the legacy canvas?  If so, I
>> will file a bug report.  If not, we need to discuss this before I am
>> willing to kick the legacy canvas to the curb.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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