[RFC] Context-Menu Handling in KDevelop4

[Andras Mantia]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 04.04.07 10:11:03, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Personally I think the actionCollection way is cleaner and we
> > > don't have to iterate over all plugins asking them for additions
> > > to the context menu.
> >
> > I'm just thinking how will be possible to control the order of
> > appearance of the menu items.
>
> hm, how about KActionCollection::actions(), without looking into the
> code I'd assume it returns the actions in the order they were added.
> I might be wrong here of course.

This is not documented, and I'm not sure we can ely on it.

> Also there are action groups, so rather than adding individual
> actions a plugin should add an action group with all its actions. And
> then we only have to make sure the order is the same on each
> invocation of the context menu.

Another question remains though: what about separators? A plugin might 
provide several actions for e.g files, but they might need some 
grouping.

I'm not against the actionCollection, I just want to know how can we 
give more freedom to plugin developers.

Andras


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