Am I the only one who thinks that the right-click menu in Track View (when clicking on a clip) is in a need of a complete overhaul?
Why copy/cut/paste/delete, all the options that should be the most accessible are hidden in a sub-menu, yet the Split option is in the main one, but in a different section?
Wouldn't it be better to have copy/cut/paste/delete/split in one segment, on the very top of the menu? Surely these options are used way more than let's say "Unlink Step Sequencer Clips".
 
 
 

+1

Thanks for your post. I think your spot-on. I hadn't ever thought about it B4, but a +1 from me too.  

Makes some sense, but I almost never use menus for Cut/Copy/Paste, always keyboard shortcuts, so it doesn't really bother me. The same goes for other commands in that menu that I use frequently, Apply Trimming, Bounce to Clip(s), Split, and Unlink...

I'd say that the current method is spot-on: keyboard and edit main menu commands for copy, paste etc are so easily available (and shortcut keys are standard Windows so everyone should know them) that more unusual and/or less easily accessible functions should be more quickly available via the right-click menu.

Of course, 8.x allowed you to customise the menus so everyone's favourite commands could be quickly accessed (or, like me, remove things like copy/paste compeletely!).

It's very, very far away from "spot-on".
It's counter-intuitive, non-ergonomic and goes completely against any other Windows application that I am familiar with. Copy/paste/delete and "split" in this case should be easily accessible by right click.
It would improve arranging/editing clips greatly, at least for me. 
Right-click menu is in a terrible mess right now.
 

I'd like to see delete special as a right click option, and agree that the default options on right click could be improved.

Andrzej Salm
It's very, very far away from "spot-on".
It's counter-intuitive, non-ergonomic and goes completely against any other Windows application that I am familiar with. Copy/paste/delete and "split" in this case should be easily accessible by right click.
It would improve arranging/editing clips greatly, at least for me. 
Right-click menu is in a terrible mess right now.
 

just out of curiosity, do you use keyboard shortcuts (CNTRL+C / CNTRL+V / Delete key) ?
If you do then why is there a bigger need to see these ?
Not questioning your argument just trying to understand more why ?

chuckebaby
 
just out of curiosity, do you use keyboard shortcuts (CNTRL+C / CNTRL+V / Delete key) ?
If you do then why is there a bigger need to see these ?
Not questioning your argument just trying to understand more why ?

I'm lazy.
I prefer to use the mouse only whenever I can. I have to use the mouse to highlight a clip anyway and then to move the clip or the NowTime to desired position. While CtrlC/CtrlV are easy to do with the left hand (and still, it's an effort), hitting Del requires me to either slightly lean over to the right to reach it with my left hand or moving my right hand form the mouse to the keyboard. Not very ergonomic...
Like I said before, right clicking to get to copy/paste/delete is pretty much standard across all Windows applications. I really don't understand why Cakewalk have decided to hide those options in a submenu.
 
 

I'm with the keyboard shortcut crowd. I can't remember the last time I used a context menu for cut/copy/paste. So I would want those in side menus to avoid making the context menu any longer/cluttered than it is now. Same with the View options.
 
You can always put them in the Custom section of the control and then they're only one click away...better than using a context menu.