Context menu defaults

[JJ Johnson]

Most of the context-menu selections have sub-menus and require drilling down to those sub-menus to perform a task. For example Edit metadata > Edit metadata individually or Send to device > Send to main memory. Is there any way that calibre can be configured to select the first submenu item from the top-level context menu?

I use the context menu more than the buttons above or hotkeys, and 99% of the time I select that first sub-menu item.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JJ Johnson

I use the context menu more than the buttons above or hotkeys, and 99% of the time I select that first sub-menu item.

So do I.

I use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate the context menus rather than the mouse.

Have a look at the Favourites plugin, it allows one to select individual items from the drop down menus. In the attached screen shot the first two items of Favourites come from from the Select Library tool, the third comes from the JobSpy piugin.

BR

[JJ Johnson]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Have a look at the Favourites plugin, it allows one to select individual items from the drop down menus.

Thanks. Done. But unless I'm missing something, that can't make any of those functions require fewer mouse actions. It's still three actions to get to one of the functions down in a sub-menu.

1. right-click
2. select Favorites
3. select Edit

I can definitely see how it would be handy, though, by putting most-used functions in one menu and requiring less scanning of the sub-menus.