Guide context menu offers deletion, doesn't delete

[Hachmann]

Hi,

using 0.91pre3 on LM17, I get a context menu if I right click on a guide. This context menu offers 'Delete' at the bottom.
Choosing this option does not do anything. Pressing 'Del' key when guide is selected works and deletes the guide.

Same goes for 'Duplicate' and the other options.
I'm not sure if they are meant to do anything on a guide if a guide is selected, but as they are shown, this led me to believe the context menu referred to the guide.

Also, if I right-click on the guide and there is an object below which is not selected (and no other object), I get a larger context menu, with 'duplicate' and 'Fill and Stroke' for example, but duplicate does neither duplicate the object, nor the guide. Fill and Stroke in that context menu sets fill and stroke for the not selected object which is below the guide.

If someone has time, the context menu would be something which could use some love :) It's currently quite inconsistent.

[Liam P. White (liampwhite)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 14.04 with:

- inkscape 0.91pre3 r13678
- inkscape 0.91+devel r13787

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Issue (guides are not objects which can be selected, and thus cannot be interacted with with commands which depend on a selection) has been touched in various earlier reports (or comments thereof). As has the inconsistency of the context menu wrt acting either on an actual selection or on a selectable object (not a guide) found at the current cursor position). I'll add a list of related reports later (unless someone wants to do that).

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Thank you suv, I didn't realize that, probably I searched for the wrong terms (guides + context menu). Please mark as duplicate then.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

A couple of related earlier reports:

Certain commands don't work on guides:
- Bug #170355 “Extended UI for managing guides” (comment #8)
- Bug #511788 '"Duplicate" command (Ctrl-D or right-click menu) on a guide does nothing'
- Bug #535573 “copy guides”

Guides are not objects:
- Bug #170813 “treat guides more like objects + lock guides + some toughts”
- Bug #996252 “Guides as special class of objects”

Inconsistencies in context menu:
- Bug #169028 “delete in right-click menu works differently than Del”
- Bug #859462 “Focus problem when right clicking on item to open "Object Properties"”

Reorg context menu:
- Bug #171535 “Rick-Click Context Menu -- More, More More”
- Bug #170648 “Context-sensitive right menu”
- Bug #960240 “Wishlist: Reposition replace text and split text to context menu”
- Bug #814689 ""Change case” context menu item for text objects”
- Bug #910529 “Memory leak when opening context menu”

About the context menu and its scope, see also:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/6897>