On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 4:03 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

The other day I had to add a context menu to a widget (QPushbutton) defined in a .ui file and went a bit further when I realised it could be nice to be able to open such a menu without using a right-click or menu button. After all, not all platforms have a (physical) right mouse button or a menu key; Macs come to mind but also mobile devices.

The usual way to open the context menu on such platforms is click/tap-and-hold - I think that was actually introduced in an early Mac OS X version.

Macs however always have two-fingers secondary click;

their magic mouse have both (it's mouse-touchpad hybrid).

Worth noting that the tap-and-hold is used only in very few

places of the macOS shell, like the bottom launcher and

Launchpad, pretty much nothing else accepts tap-and-hold

for context menu, certainly not any of the regular apps.

So I wouldn't say that is "the usual way" on mac at all.

Just to provide some more insight for non-mac folks.

Cheers

Martin Klapetek