Revision as of 15:16, 2 August 2014

kde-contextmenu allows you to change the menu you get when right-clicking onto the KDE desktop. Use it with KDE 4.4 or higher.

kde-contextmenu is simple and extendable.

To set it up:

• Download it, e.g. from https://github.com/tstaerk/kde-contextmenu/archive/master.zip
• install the needed dependencies. To do this, find out your distribution, open a console and issue

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake kdelibs5-dev

yast -i cmake libkde4-devel

yum install kdelibs-devel

• unpack it, e.g.

cd
unzip Downloads/kde-contextmenu-master.zip

• make sure you have cmake installed, e.g. for SUSE Linux:

yast -i cmake

• build and install it, e.g.

cd kde-contextmenu-master
sh setup.sh

• this should install everything
• now right-click onto your KDE desktop, select "Folder View Settings" or "Default Desktop Settings" -> "Mouse Actions"

• now you can change the action for "Right Button" to "KDE ContextMenu"
• enjoy this program's simplicity :)

Developers

This chapter is for people who want to develop this plugin.

If I do not define

QList<QAction *> contextualActions();

I get

The same happens when in contextualActions() I

return Plasma::ContainmentActions::contextualActions();

See also

• software
• http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kde-contextmenu?content=157202
• https://github.com/tstaerk/kde-contextmenu
• http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/ContainmentAction