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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ideas for KDE3.0
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-10-29 18:05:46
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On Monday 29 October 2001 17:29, Holger Freyther wrote:
> [ ... ] I know it's using KRadioAction. We could
> add a KPopupMenu which triggers on a right click. it could be accessible by
> KPopupMenu
> KRadioAction::popupMenu( ) or QPopupMenu::popupMenu() ( I volunteer to do
> this).

I don't know to what extend this collides with the general concept of 
KActions, but I personally would love to have methods on KActions for 
supporting right and middle clicks if the widget in which they are plugged 
supports it.
Middle click for e.g. the Konq back/forward/up/home buttons to open in a new 
window and right click for a context menu.

Having a popupmenu() method instead of a simple right click might be a bit 
too inflexible. Or could we define a default rightClick() handler that opens 
the context menu, but that can be overridden when preferred?

Hmm... now that I think of this, the popup menu would be a nice candidate for 
the KStdGuiItem class that I proposed yesterday, as it is not necessarily 
bound to a KAction...

> I added plugin support to KonqPopupMenu (
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=100434667113459&w=2 ) . I would like to
> add plugin support to more places. (kicker menu, kdesktop, kmail??) I think
> Plugins for PopupMenu is cool, because it offers dynamic. ( I volunteer to
> do this )

Would be nice to have too, but I'm not sure if you can get that working and 
tested in time for KDE 3.0. Does it require API changes? Otherwise you might 
want to postpone this to KDE 3.1.

> I would like to add more TearOffHandles to KDE Applications. TeraOffMenus
> comes handy a lot of time. Some of you know the systray plugin of noatun.
> If you want to skip say 6 songs. You need to right click 6 times and click
> 6 times. But with a Tear off Handle you can tear off it and then just click
> it. I already did this. I tried to do this with knewsticker too but they
> weren't using KActions for there menu. I added the TearOff but it didn't
> work (besides I will add it).

Would be nice, especially since this can be done safely until quite late into 
the overall feature freeze (it doesn't affect stability and/or API).

Martijn
 
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