No "Properties" option on right-click in the Ubuntu main menu

[Bernhard]

Binary package hint: gnome-main-menu

I guess this is a wish: when I browse through the "Applications" main menu in Gnome and I right-click on a particular app, I get the menu "Add this launcher to Panel/Desktop, etc." But why not get the "Properties" of a launcher on right-click? Sort of like with Firefox bookmarks: right-click menu contains a "Properties" option.

Currently, I would have to go to "Edit Menus", then browse to my app and then right-click on "Properties".

[Nicola Cardinali (nicola.cardinali)]

I wish to have also this commands in the right-click menù:
- Rename
- Hide
- Delete
- Cut Copy and Paste
- Order by name

[Raptor Ramjet (ramjet)]

I agree totally. Anywhere a right click menu is available it should always contain a mandatory "Properties" item. Not consistently having one available is, for me, one of the worst pieces of the GNOME UI.

In Windows I can always right click on an object and get it's properties. This makes Windows discoverable as you can always find what the actual program for a shortcut is, find details about a selected file etc. etc.

Ubuntu should make it a mandatory part of the design that whenever an icon is being used to represent a file there is always a right click -> "Properties" menu available that will give full basic properties of the item e.g. full file path, full path of the icon in use, information regarding file type, brief (but accurate and meaningful) description of the file etc.

This philosophy should also apply to any part of the user interface not just the menus (e.g. the results pane of search, in Nautilus, on every icon in the panels, in *anything* that uses icons to represent files/items)