Vertical menubar on iPhone

[At_Libitum]

Got a suggestion for the iPhone version

I have reached the point that it is becoming a put off.

Could the menubar that pops up when doing a long press please be oriented vertical?

See screenshot for what I mean


I've had it happen soooo many times when trying to tap the little arrows at the ends that I lost the selection that I have now given up using it and simply open a browser on my desktop or enter annotations directly in Calibre.

[Philantrop]

I agree. That would be highly useful.

[kyteflyer]

oh yes, what a great idea. Wouldnt hurt to be vertical across all devices.

[Faterson]

Originally Posted by At_Libitum

I've had it happen soooo many times when trying to tap the little arrows at the ends that I lost the selection

I agree. It's very difficult to hit the little button with the arrow, and very easy to mis-hit the arrow, thus losing the selection. I'd say it's almost a 50:50 chance currently for you to mis-hit the little button.

This could be a simple option among Marvin settings, on both iPhone and iPad: "Use vertical context menubar? YES/NO"

What aggravates the situation is that we are currently not given the ability to reorder the menu buttons. (See GitHub #25.) Some of the buttons I need to use most frequently on the iPhone, are currently hidden on a sub-level (even the 2nd or 3rd sub-level!), although I'd definitely move them to the top level if given the chance.

I also need the ability to set up more than only 4 custom context menu buttons in Marvin, so that rethinking the way context menu buttons are displayed in Marvin would be a good idea. The buttons could perhaps be stackable, instead of the selection being a simple linear sequence of buttons.

[kguil]

I like the idea - However, it will involve building a menu system from scratch so it will take a while.

(Unfortunately, the "reveal more" menu chevrons in iOS 7 are smaller than iOS 6)