Emulator Issues #10493
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[feature request] Make per-game context menu accessible as a menu in the mainbar
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Description
For reasons of personal preference (I use instantaneous Xmouse-style mousing), I use Dolphin’s Render to Main Window feature. It is very, very useful for me—I’m grateful to whoever added it.
Also, because I intentionally don’t set ROM/ISO paths in Dolphin’s Paths tab, Dolphin does not display a graphical list of accessible games in the main UI window; rather, I run all games from command line shortcuts, not from the Dolphin GUI.
For both these reasons, while a game is running, I have no access to the per-game Properties dialog, or indeed its originating context menu—which is accessible only (so far as I know) from the Dolphin UI’s graphical game list. So, for example, if I am running a game but wish to access its game-specific properties—for example, to check the contents of its INI, or to link directly to its wiki page—I am unable to easily do so.
Instead, I have to close the game, then add the ISO’s folder path under the Paths tab in Dolphin’s options, then find the game in the graphical game list, and finally right-click on it to choose the context menu item I need.
I realize that I could turn off Render to Main Window and could also set paths to all my ROM/ISO folders, but I’d prefer to do neither of those things—especially not to stop rendering to main window.
Moreover, even if I did both those things, so long as I launch games directly from the command line, this is frustrating merely for requiring me to scroll through hundreds of games to find the one whose context menu I need to access.
In short, current behavior is suboptimal in a few use cases:
Users who render to the main window can’t see the game list while a game is running and thus can’t right-click the game’s banner for that game’s context menu—say, to access the game’s INI or to link directly to the wiki page for the game.
Users who don’t set ISO folder paths can’t see the game list at all and must temporarily add folder paths to be able to see banners so that they can right-click for a context menu, etc.
In both of these circumstances, the user is required to close the game before accessing the game’s context menu, even if wishing to access while keeping the game running (say, until creation of a savegame is possible).
What's more, when neither of the above is true—that is, when rendering in a second separate window and when indeed setting folder paths—users who launch games from the command line must scroll through a list of ISOs (which in my case is quite large) to find the one they want before then right-clicking on it for a context menu.
To make this menu and its options more readily accessible, I’d love to see the context menu added as an additional main menu, perhaps between “Emulation” and “Movie”—and titled, perhaps, “Game”. This menu would present the same list of options as are sometimes accessible by right-clicking on a game’s banner in the UI. (See the attached screenshot for how this would look.)
I know you’ve got lots more to do than this, but it would increase the usability of Dolphin dramatically for people in various situations, especially for people who have many games and launch them directly rather than through Dolphin (but also for people who use certain of Dolphin’s features, such as by rendering to main window).
So if anyone ever adds this feature, you have my thanks in advance!
(Well, you have it anyway. I can’t thank you enough for helping people everywhere keep their games playable forever.)
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