On 03.04.2015, at 00:58, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> On 02-04-2015, at 3:56 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 03.04.2015, at 00:43, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>>   since the hover highlight changes, where the list element under the mouse that would be selected if one clicks is highlighted in light blue appears to have caused a bad bug.  If one does a right-button clock to bring up a menu the system can end up selecting the item under the mouse before putting up the menu.  This is *wrong*.  The mouse click to bring up a menu should /not/ change the selection.
>> 
>> The rightclick must change the selection, at 
>> least _temporarily_ to highlight for what item the menu is constructed.
> 
> err, run that one by me again? That sounds awfully, terribly, wrong.
> 

So when you rightclick on something you need some feedback on what you rightclick
to assure you you clicked on the right thing, right?

In osx this is done by a kind-of secondary selection (a border instead of a 
full color highlight) that leaves the primary selection untouched.

Since this is afaik only available in one of our widgets that support
selection AND context menus, I think changing the selection is fine.

Best
	-Tobias