Border menu for context dependent actions within a graphical user interface

A method for presenting a user with context dependent actions within a user interface comprising:

• detecting a user selection of a GUI object within a graphical user interface of an application running on a computing device;
• determining a plurality of object-specific actions relevant to the GUI object for a current application state of the application;
• responsive to the user selection of the GUI object, visually presenting a border menu,
• wherein the border menu is presented at the top of a stack of the graphical user interface,
• said border menu comprising a plurality of user-selectable options, wherein at least a portion of the user-selectable options comprise an option for each of the object-specific actions relevant to the GUI object for the current application state, wherein said border menu is presented on four sides of an outer border of the user interface;
• wherein each of the user-selectable options are selectable via a pointing device, each of the user-selectable options being associated with at least one of an icon or text button, wherein at least one of the user-selectable options is presented along each of the four sides of the outer border of the border menu, wherein said application is an application currently having focus within a graphical user interface,
• receiving a user selection of one of the user-selectable options;
• triggering an event, which results in firing of a programmatic action corresponding to the selected one of the user selectable options;
• and
• responsive to the user selection of the one of the user selectable options, automatically adjusting a display state of the border menu so that it is no longer visually presented, wherein the user-selectable options of the border menu dynamically change as different applications receive focus so that the border menu continuously and dynamically presents all options available for an application having focus,
• wherein the border menu dynamically changes its visibility state so that the border menu is only shown within the graphical user interface when context-dependent options specific to a context of the current application state are to be shown and wherein the border menu is not shown within the graphical user interface when no context-dependent options specific to a context of the current application state are to be shown.