Hello,
currently, when using the reload action from the menu in electron, the user ends up in a blank page (Loading...).
When investigating this issue, I noticed that no menu entry are currently useful.
Here is an exhaustive list of all the menu entries and the consequence of not having them on the menu.
- File
- Quit (Ctrl+Q): Does not work without the menu, but the native way to quit an app (e.g., Alt+F4 on Linux) is working
- Edit
- Undo: works when no menu
- Redo: works when no menu
- Cut: works when no menu
- Copy: works when no menu
- Paste: works when no menu
- Delete: apparently does nothing
- Select all: works when no menu
- View
- Reload (Ctrl+R): no need for it
- Forced reload (Ctrl+Shift+R): no need for it
- Toggle developer tool (Ctrl+Shift+I): useful, at least when developing
- Actual size (Ctrl+0): does not work without the menu
- Zoom in (Ctrl±): does not work without the menu
- Zoom out (Ctrl++): does not work without the menu
- Toggle full screen (F11): TODO test without menu
- Windows
- Minimize (Ctrl+M): Does not work without menu, but the native way to minimize a window is working (e.g., Win+H on Gnome)
- zoom: apparently does nothing when the menu is activated
- Close (Ctrl+W): Does not work without the menu, but the native way to quit an app (e.g., Alt+F4 on Linux) is working
- Help
- Learn more: lead to https://www.electronjs.org/
- Documentation: lead to electron/docs at v33.2.0 · electron/electron · GitHub
- Community discussions: lead to electronjs.org
- Search issues: lead to GitHub · Where software is built
Most of them can be removed, but I think a minimal set of actions must be preserved:
- useful for devs and debug:
- Toggle developer tool (Ctrl+Shift+I)
- useful for accessibility
- Actual size (Ctrl+0)
- Zoom in (Ctrl±)
- Zoom out (Ctrl++)
- Toggle full screen (F11)
Then, we have two options:
- Option 1: redefine a menu with the minimal set of actions
- Option 2.1: only bind the shortcuts for useful features
- Option 2.2: bind the shortcuts but also provide a section about help (this is more work as we’d need to introduce a help UI, and provide a way to inject electron specific details, and maybe also a notion of shortcuts and shortcuts definition)
I’m +1 for option 2.1, and create the improvements to do 2.2 later.
WDYT?
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