From kde-usability  Mon Feb 03 23:33:17 2003
From: kded () jensbenecke ! de
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:33:17 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: New actions for group all/allFiles
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=104431531817944

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:23:31PM +0100, Matthias Posseldt wrote:
> 
> There are actions. These are called service menus and you can configure 
> them by creating files in kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus. A sample:
> 
> ----- snip -----
> [Desktop Entry]
> ServiceTypes=application/x-bzip2
> Actions=bunzip2

Hi,

I've been using servicetypes for quite some time now but I still miss
three things. I'm also a little afraid that with all the options and
features KDE's menus will become too crowded with entries. Even now it
takes me a second each time to find "Delete" in the context menu, and
I've been using KDE exclusively since 1.0beta4.

So: Is it possible to 

	a) generate _sub_menus with the desktop actions?
	   i.e. "Compress files with ... ->" (zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2, ...)

	b) generate conditional menus with the desktop actions
	   (perhaps: if the .desktop file is executable, it will be
	   executed with a set of parameters instead and STDOUT 
	   will be parsed)

	c) _hide_ global servicetype entries for _some_ users (or hosts),
	   (i.e. I have k3b installed so Konqueror shows "Make ISO
	   Image" in the directory submenu, but not everyone has read
	   access to the CD burner so not everyone finds this option
	   useful. 

c) would be a practical example for b): Show only when user has write
access to the (configured) CD burner device. This could be solved with a
simple shell script that reads the k3b configuration and checks the /dev
entry.


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