Re: Appreciation for pgAdmin 4's progress

Context menus are an essential usability feature.  A context menu is intended to allow the user to quickly access the basic operations that apply to whatever is clicked on / selected (i.e., the "context"), and the menu items should be biased towards very commonly used actions (e.g., e.g., copy/paste, new, etc.).  The most frequently used should be situated near the top of the context menu to minimize the mouse movement required to get to the desired operation. Less frequently-used stuff should be buried in submenus because the usability hit required to get to these uncommon operations is a big deal, compared with making it easier to get to the common operations.

I totally understand that you don't think it's a big issue because (clearly) you're happy to use keyboard shortcuts.  But that's that way you prefer to work.   But many (most?) people rely on context menus, and it's just an unnecessary usability irritant when the stuff that you expect to find in a context menu is missing (e.g., #4229) or when the context menu hasn't had any thought given to the relative frequency of the operations (e.g., right-click on a table in the navigation pane, and you'll see less-frequently used operations like "Reset Statistics", "Drop Cascaded", "Maintenance", all above the super-common operations that are buried under "View/Edit Data..." way down at the bottom of the context menu.  I.e., the table context menu is just about as far from optimal as possible!)

Is the absence/presence and thoughtful layout of context items a major functionality gap?  No.  But is it a *completely unnecessary* every-day usability irritant?  Yes.

Cheers,
Dave