One of the UI behaviors that really influences user experience is how tight is the feedback loop. At the moment users see wait/spinning cursor their forward train-of-thought is broken as they try to find causality for that feedback by remembering what they did a second ago.

In One Commander v1, and all other file managers that use Shell Context Menu that can happen very often, especially when user installs a lot of shell extensions, but even one badly written extension can slow down each context menu opening.

These menus can also grow too long, sometimes extending beyond vertical screen size which is not very user friendly. Knowing that most of the time we just want one of the few most used functions we can avoid all mentioned issues and for that purpose, OCv2 has its own context menu:

 

Advantages are:

• It opens momentarily as there is nothing to initialize (popup is actually preloaded)
• Commands are easy to access as these are divided into 4 quadrants: Create, Open, Clipboard and Modify
• Commands are context sensitive – depending on selection (file/folder/multiple files/mixed content) and stay in the same quadrant
• Commands are close to cursor and fast to access
• If you still need Windows native context menu, there is the access button right below, or you can Shift+RightClick on file to open it directly

Context menu for one folder (above)

Context menu opened in current folder (below)

More commands are coming soon…