Previews don't change when context menu result is selected

[DavidGBrett]

Right now the preview panel doesn't react to a context menu result.
You can try this using the hello world plugin (https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.HelloWorldPython)

1. Turn on previews (Always Preview or toggle)
2. Type hp (the keyword for the plugin)
3. Right click result to open context menu

The preview will not change despite the context menu result having a different title and subtile

This is probably intended behavior as it would be reasonable to have the preview to match the original result in this case - usually context menu results aren't content themselves - the preview then lets you keep the "context" visible.
Though I don't believe this is documented anywhere so it may be a bit confusing API wise

However there could be cases where one would want a context menu result to show a preview (perhaps some file converter plugin showing a preview of what the converted type would look like?)
This could involve adding another flag to the result class to toggle this behavior, but this also raises the question of whether context menu results should have a separate class if they are going to have separate behavior (normal results could be still accepted for compatibility)

Nothing concrete but just want to open this as a discussion and to document this at least in some place.

[jjw24]

The context menu was meant to behave as additional menus items on a result, if need to show what conversion would look like for example, I think it's better to redirect to the main results panel (maybe via change query call)?
Not opposed to the idea, but just trying to figure out if it is something that is necessary before expanding what the context menu is responsible for.

[DavidGBrett]

Yeah its definitely still possible to get something close working, though it's still a bit clunky to implement submenus like that on your own (better support for those on our end has been something I've been thinking about aswell)

Such a use case may indeed be niche enough to not be worth it right now,
I mostly just thought it worth mentioning somewhere that this doesn't work