Bug 1310997 - Usability: Suboptimal entries order in context menu
Summary: Usability: Suboptimal entries order in context menu
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: keepassx
Version: 23
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aurelien Bompard
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-23 07:15 UTC by Paweł Brodacki
Modified: 2016-12-20 18:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 18:57:11 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Paweł Brodacki 2016-02-23 07:15:18 UTC
Description of problem:

In the KeePassX 2 the context menu invoked when an entry is right-clicked was changed from usable to non-usable.

Currently the menu entries available after right clicking a KeePassX base entry are (top to bottom):
Add new entry
Clone entry
View/edit entry
Delete entry
Copy username
Copy password
Copy attribute to clipboard 
Perform auto type
Open URL
Find

Compare it to the menu from the previous version (I'm using Windows version of 0.4.3 as a reference, but I don't remember the menus being different on different platforms):
Copy Username to Clipboard
Copy Password to Clipboard
Open URL
Copy URL to Clipboard
Save Attachment As
<separator>
Add New Entry
View/Edit Entry
Clone Entry
Delete Entry

The three actions that I use most when interacting with an entry in KeePassX are: copy username, copy password and copy URL. It just so happens, that all three of them are in the top 4 positions in the old menu layout. In the new menu they are on positions 5 and 6 (username and password), and copying the URL requires using a sub-menu accessible from position 7 of the context menu.

I am willing to admit that my use case may not be typical (sample of 1 is a small statistics), however I find it hard to believe, that when a typical user right-clicks on a KeePassX base entry he wants to 
Add new entry
Clone entry
View/edit entry
or
Delete entry

It is my considered opinion, that the old menu layout was better, because it made the most useful menu entries (copy username and password) most accessible and easiest to use. I would like to propose re-arrangement of the menu to be similar to the old one. I think I would like

Copy username
Copy password
Open URL
Copy URL to clipboard 
Copy attribute to clipboard 
<separator>
Add new entry
Clone entry
View/edit entry
Delete entry
Perform auto type
Find

more than the current layout. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
keepassx-2.0.0-1.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a non-empty KeePassX 2 base.
2. Right-click on any base entry.
3.

Actual results:
Context menu with following entries is displayed:
Add new entry
Clone entry
View/edit entry
Delete entry
Copy username
Copy password
Copy attribute to clipboard 
Perform auto type
Open URL
Find

Expected results:
Context menu with entries ordered to make it easy to use most common tasks is displayed. Proposed menu entry order:
Copy username
Copy password
Open URL
Copy URL to clipboard 
Copy attribute to clipboard 
<separator>
Add new entry
Clone entry
View/edit entry
Delete entry
Perform auto type
Find


Additional info:

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