Add a right-click menu

[Massedil]

It can be really practical to have a right-click menu with some options :

• Reply / Reply to all / Transfer
• Archive / Spam / Delete
• Move to a folder
• Mark as read / unread

[the-djmaze]

There is the context event, but that has drawbacks:

• it prevents the default context menu
• because bad webdesign disables the context menu, you can prevent them with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled = false And because of stupidity there are browser plugins like: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/re-enable-right-click/

So, somewhere in the past there was a great HTML5 feature contextmenu attribute. It allowed what you want: add items to the context menu! But it is obsolete because only Firefox supported it.

And now there's a problem: there is no good alternative to create a right-click menu :crying_cat_face:

[jsonoctopus]

And now there's a problem: there is no good alternative to create a right-click menu

Perhaps the well appreciated right click app for Nextcloud has interesting php code to look at ? https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/files_rightclick

[the-djmaze]

@jsonoctopus sorry, that code is bad by design. It "disables" the browser context menu, as i said.

For example:

1. view a message with images and/or links
2. right click image/link to get the browser context menu options

Custom right-click menu:

1. view a message with images and/or links
2. right click image/link = No context menu

[Massedil]

it prevents the default context menu

I think you can always access the browser context menu with "Maj" + "Right click", without any plugin. Am I wrong ?

Maybe we can inform snappymail users with a one time message, the first time the new snappymail context menu is displayed, that explains :

• they can disable the new snappymail context menu function if they want
• they can always access the browser context menu with "Maj" + "Right click"

And add in the new snappymail context menu interface a "help icon" that display again this message ?

What do you think about that ?

[Massedil]

right click image/link = No context menu

To improve user experience, maybe we can also display only the new context menu when the right click is on emails and disable it when it is inside email content ?

So that you always can right-click a link or an image.

[the-djmaze]

I think you can always access the browser context menu with "Maj" + "Right click", without any plugin. Am I wrong ?

No idea, i will test that option.

[Mer0me]

I can confirm that under firefox the shift-right-click allows to see the browser built-in context menu

[ner00]

If implemented, ideally the context menu should only work while hovering specific areas of the webmail (message list, folder list, contact list, etc), somewhat like Roundcube's context menu plugin: https://github.com/johndoh/roundcube-contextmenu/

[the-djmaze]

Since it will not work on touch screens, i won't work on this.