right click menu is disabled if nothing was explicitly selected

[toloudis]

Load the variance dataset, go to thumbnail view, and just right click any thumbnail. The dropdown menu is visible but greyed out and disabled. You can't do anything until you left-click select something first. My expectation as a user needs to be trained that nothing is actually wrong here, because I might interpret this that the dropdown menu options are unavailable due to missing data or something.

Maybe when nothing is selected, right click could just select the single item that was clicked?

[SeanLeRoy]

Maybe when nothing is selected, right click could just select the single item that was clicked?

This seems like the right behavior to me. To the assignee, confirm with @lynwilhelm.

[lynwilhelm]

@SeanLeRoy @BrianWhitneyAI @toloudis I just tried it out myself. I can see how if we just force-select whatever file the user is currently hovered over when they right click, they would be able to see the menu options clearly and we could avoid the greying out all together. I guess I slightly lean toward this without knowledge of any unforeseen negative implications. FYI this aligns with what the behavior is on my Mac. This seems like very low priority/impact though, so I'd do this last if there are other things!