Right click menu

[J Leslie Turriff]

	Darn!  Yet another place where desktop settings can be hidden. :-(

Leslie

On 2021-03-15 04:56:32 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Monday March 15 2021 07:56:42 Ianseeks wrote:
> >Is there any way to configure the right-click menu within each
> > application? I'd like to be able to put items on the menu that suit me
> > (and remove ones i don't use).
>
> This will depend on the application, in particular if it generates its
> menus via the KXMLGui framework. If so, you might find files like
>
> /usr/share/kxmlgui5/katepart/katepart5ui.rc
> or
> ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5/katepart/katepart5ui.rc
>
> and therein you'd find the menu specification.
>
> However:
> - AFAIK these resources are now compiled in and not necessarily present on
> disk anymore (if they are, the one in ~/.local/share/kxmlgui5 will take
> priority!). Hence the "might find" above. - the only documentation for what
> items you might be able to add is typically in the source code - even if
> the base menu is created this way, applications can still remove and/or add
> items on the fly themselves. It is thus possible to break an application,
> for instance if the rc file creates an empty submenu, and if the app bails
> with an error if it doesn't find that menu when it tries to populate it at
> runtime.
>
> There's also a caching feature with a version number in the rc file; you
> will probably have to bump that version if you make changes, which may
> wreak havoc the next time the application is updated.
>
> In short, this is more suitable for tweaking if you build your application
> from source.
>
> R.


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