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Originally Posted by maximus83
Thoughts on the feasibility of all that?
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Well, firstly, a big thankyou for all the thought and research that you're investing in the question. I do appreciate it, and I am now rather anxious that I am going to sound ungrateful, when I start offering objections to your proposals. And 'ungrateful' is absolutely not what I am feeling!
But it's not an easy problem to solve, and perhaps my biggest constraint is that I am trying to make Freda work with the same UI design on phones, tablets, and desktop machines. That does tie my hands a bit - because the proper UI for an 'overflowing' menu is different, depending on whether the user is working with touch or mouse+keyboard (scrolling a menu sideways using a mouse is tricky; the app really needs to display a [...] affordance that opens up a vertical list of overflow menu items when tapped).
So far, I have managed to avoid tackling this problem, by making sure that none of Freda's menus overflow. Adding new menu behaviour is, of course, feasible ... but it would mean a significant amount of re-writing of Freda's code, which I'd need to do once for Android, and again for Windows, and I would then need to test on a depressingly large number of different devices. And all this development work would be just for one specific use-case; I would prefer to find a different answer.
By the way, to the 'custom gesture to add a bookmark' point - if you want to do that in Freda, it's already possible (from the 'settings' page, choose the 'controls' link; on the little diagram of the screen layout, tap (for instance) the top-right icon, and from the menu select 'bookmark this page'; tap the check-mark then OK, and now a tap at the top right of the page will add a bookmark.