Bug#232898: more information

[Jon Dowland <jon@dowland.name>]

Hi,

I can provide more information on this problem.

If I right-click on my friend's name, I am offered a context menu
containing 'Rename Contact'.

If I right click on the same line, but in the little protocol icon, I
get a subtly different context menu containing 'Change Alias'.

The behaviour I have reported exists with 'Change Alias', but not
'Rename Contact'.

I would suggest that having two different options that claim to do much
the same thing as each other, is bad UI. It is not clear what the
difference is, why one works and the other doesn't, etc.

The context menu that is brought up by right-clicking on the protocol
icon is accessible via a sub-menu of the context menu that appears when
right-clicking anywhere else on the line.

I would suggest removing the context-menu that appears from the icon,
and making right-click actions on this area behave in the same way as
the rest of the line.

Yours,

-- 
Jonathan Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/