Popovers are starting to be misused as context menus in a GTK 3 application, namely Inkscape 1.4.
We already patched the menus in places like the file chooser, so it is unknown how easy it is to apply this globally.
Screenshots
Inkscape 1.4 - context menu
GNOME Disks 46.1 - as a toolbar item
Commits
It seems intentional that Inkscape moved to use popovers instead of menus due to some background work of porting to GTK 4. It's possible it was a regression in the application:
What should be patched?
Popovers are starting to be misused as context menus in a GTK 3 application, namely Inkscape 1.4.
We already patched the menus in places like the file chooser, so it is unknown how easy it is to apply this globally.
Screenshots
Commits
It seems intentional that Inkscape moved to use popovers instead of menus due to some background work of porting to GTK 4. It's possible it was a regression in the application:
Since Inkscape is also distributed as an AppImage, it could be possible to just downgrade and stick with that version forever instead.