Context menus

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

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 wow, suddenly this makes sense :) grep X-KDE-ServiceType `kde4-config --prefix`/share/kde4/servicetypes/* | grep -i plasma 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?

See also

• http://try-linux.blogspot.de/2013/02/editing-context-menu.html
• http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/20502/edit-the-right-click-menu.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3962298/how-to-add-an-entry-to-gnomes-context-menu
• http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=117639
• http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScript/GettingStarted