[tasklist] Menu items moved

I notice Tim has moved some menu items (such as Filter,
Expunge Tasks, Edit Types, ...) away from the node context
menus.

They are now available on the context menu on the window tab.

This has the advantage that the context menu is a lot smaller,
which makes it more managable - and it's also more conceptually
clean, since the context contains only actions that apply to
the selected node(s), not "global" actions like expunge completed
tasks.

But it has the disadvantage that it may be harder to find/discover
these items. (I had to search to locate them).

What are your thoughts on this?  Do you think users will find
these actions in the window tab context menu?   Part of the
reason I'm slightly worried people won't look there is that the
window context menus typically only contain actions related to
the window (clone, close, dock, ...) not the data contained in
the window (the tasklist itself).

Do you think an alternative like the following will work
better: move these actions back to the node context menu (and possibly
leave them in the windows menu as well), but organize all of them
at the end of the context menu (except leave properties at the end,
by convention). That way, the context menu contains all the node
operations, followed by the global tasklist related operations,
followed by properties. This means the menu grows again - but
discoverability should be improved. 

What do you think?

-- Tor


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Tor Norbye <[email protected]>
Sun Microsystems, Inc