Context menus

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Revision as of 19:01, 6 March 2013 by imported>ThorstenStaerk

When you right-click on your Linux desktop you get a context menu displayed. It looks like this:

Snapshot-context-menu-kde-1.png

How to edit it highly depends on your desktop environment.

See /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop

tweedleburg:~/.kde4/share/config # diff plasma-desktop-appletsrc~ plasma-desktop-appletsrc
3d2
< wheel:Vertical;NoModifier=switchdesktop
tweedleburg:~/.kde4/share/config # cd /usr/share/kde4/services
tweedleburg:/usr/share/kde4/services # grep -ir "switchdesktop" *
plasma-containmentactions-switchdesktop.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_switchdesktop
plasma-containmentactions-switchdesktop.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=switchdesktop
tweedleburg:/usr/share/kde4/services # grep -ir "contextmenu" *
plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_contextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-contextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=contextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-minimalcontextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-Library=plasma_containmentactions_minimalcontextmenu
plasma-containmentactions-minimalcontextmenu.desktop:X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=minimalcontextmenu

chat

it is a beginner's question and can go directly into your tutorial what can I write in the .desktop file behind ServiceTypes? tstaerk: ls `kde4-config --prefix`/share/kde4/servicetypes tstaerk: each of those files defines a service type fosterfeld_ (~frank@business-213-023-163-030.static.arcor-ip.net) has quit (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) ascarpino: ok thanks wow, suddenly this makes sense :) grep X-KDE-ServiceType `kde4-config --prefix`/share/kde4/servicetypes/* | grep -i plasma heath (quassel@2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:6e5b) has quit (Changing host) heath (quassel@unaffiliated/ybit) has joined #kde-devel that will get you all the plasma related ones

Questions

  • why can't I
plasmoidviewer contextmenu
while i can use the contextmenu in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
  • why can't I use charselect in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
while I can
plasmoidviewer charselect
  • seems this is determined by the type. One has
ServiceTypes=Plasma/ContainmentActions

the other

ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet
  • hm... do ContainmentActions need an init function to work? And in case of javascript Applets, just the javascript code is executed and an init function is not needed?

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