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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Wishlist Right click menu
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:16:04 -0800
In-Reply-To: <878637ec0512010957v2972c870v19fb328f23aa978b@mail.gmail.com>


/signed!!

In my mind, what would be really great, functional design, would be
something like this:

1) Right click tag, menu pops up, choose "Copy Tag"

2) Dialogue appears. Instead of current "Do you really want to copy this
tag?"** box, we get:

Make an exact copy of this tag?

Number of copies: [ 1]

[Yes][No]

"Yes" and "1" would be default, so if you just want one copy the keystrokes
are no different than they are now. If you want more than one copy (which I
usually do), just type "3" or "5" or "15" or whatever and then Enter/Yes.
Voilà, multiple copies of the tag.

Strict text-entry only, or combo box (text-entry + drop down) makes little
difference to me, though I'm sure some would find a scroll/drop-down feature
preferable.

In a *perfect* perfect world, we could set a default number of our own, so
it would automatically ask if you wanted 3 or 5 copies or whatever.


** Note regarding #2 above: If we have to stick with the feature the way it
currently exists, can we please, for the love of sweet sweet mercy, get a
checkbox or preference option to turn off this confirmation box? It's
INCREDIBLY annoying. I was entering census tags for a large family the other
night -- Copy, confirm, Copy confirm copyconfirm ... 26 frelling clicks to
copy the bloody tag. I understand that not everyone would actually want the
copy made, but it's not *that* big a deal to delete an excess tag
accidentally copied (the option is on the right-click menu, after all) so
why make it so excrutiatingly difficult to copy one? AAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!

DeAnna

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DeAnna Burghart
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patt Ricketts [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:57 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wishlist Right click menu


I just wish we could have an option to copy the tag more than once.

Patt Ricketts

On 11/28/05, Garry F Bell <> wrote:
>
> Life would me so much easier if we could have this.
>
> Garry
> New Zealand
>
> > Me too, me too!
> > Doreen Neilley
> >
> >> yes yes yes yes!! I know we've asked for this before, but I'm seconding
> >> the
> >> motion again. :) My Copy Tag button on my custom toolbar gets more of a
> >> workout than my IN test, and it just seems strange to have Edit and
> >> Delete
> >> but no Copy option when right-clicking.
> >>
> >> /signed
> >> DeAnna
>
> >> I would love to see the option to COPY tag added to the right click
> menu.
> >> Normally I have a HUGE custom toolbar open, but on this computer the
> >> screen
> >> is smaller, and having a custom toolbar is just taking up space that
> >> could
> >> easily be saved if the COPY tag command was on the right click menu.
> >> Teresa Ghee Elliott
>
>
>
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