Text Editor: Solve UI problem with right clicking on spellcheck suggestions to make "Add to Dictionary" more convenient
This is the first issue I've ever created in the GNOME project. Feel free to let me know if there are any rules or conventions I didn't follow correctly and I'll be happy to fix it. I'm creating this issue because I searched for "gnome text editor report issue" on the web, which brought me to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/, which brought me to this GitLab instance, where I found https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor, which brought me to this repo instead (because I have a design suggestion, not a bug report).
I use GNOME Text Editor as part of my daily workflow. I often want to add things to the spellcheck dictionary. I find that when I right click on a spellcheck suggestion, the option "Add to Dictionary" is hidden at the bottom of a very large right click menu displayed to me, because there are many suggestions.
Here's an example. I right clicked on "gcr".
The problem here is that I have to move my cursor down quite a bit to choose the "Add to Dictionary" option because in this case (and in many of the cases where I use the text editor) there are many suggestions. This is especially problematic when I'm using the text editor on a monitor I have in landscape because that option is out of view and I have to scroll down to get to it. It's not that it's difficult for me to do, it's just inconvenient.
Here's an example of a program that I think does this better. It's Google Chrome.
In this example, it's not a problem with Chrome because they only display a few suggestions. This leaves plenty of room in the UI for "Add to Dictionary" to be displayed close to my cursor when I right click.
I think the GNOME project should consider one of two design changes:
- Change to only showing at most three suggestions, like Chrome does in my Chrome example above.
- Change to displaying "Add to Dictionary" above the suggestions so that users can conveniently add things to the dictionary no matter how many suggestions text editor wants to display.
I strongly prefer the first option because I think it would solve other UI problems people may run into in the future, where the things they want to choose from the right click menu are hidden at the bottom because many spellcheck suggestions are displayed. But, for just me, with just what I'm trying to do here, the second option would work fine.