Right click on tasks

The idea is to replace the default (firefox/chomium) context widnows when right clicking, because this default context window is basically useless in a webapp.

IMO it would be a great feature to have such a little window with quick commands (like delete a task, give it to a user etc). Basically it would be a way to have quickly access to useful commands without

  1. Clicking on the task
  2. Waiting for a whole task window to load with information that might be unneeded and that clutter the GUI
  3. Clicking on the command you want (on the right pane) by searching all the commands (that are many)
  4. A component going to the top of the window to set a value (or a modal window for delete)
  5. Moving the mouse from the right to the top part to finally do something

Replacing that workflow with :

  1. right cligk on the task
  2. Choose the quick command
  3. Act : specify a value or confirm - done

Obviously it would be useless if we just put back all the command option from the task view, it should only be a subset of the most used ones. So only for the top 3-5 most frequently used action for regular users.

Its not something trivial though. But I guess it would be possible to reuse some of the components that are added up in the task view, and “show” them after clicking on the action.