Bug 123970 - provide a method to make the Menu-key simulate an RMB-click
Summary: provide a method to make the Menu-key simulate an RMB-click
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2006-03-20 10:31 UTC by Maciej Pilichowski
Modified: 2011-07-25 17:47 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2006-03-20 10:31:08 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

It is so common that I put in the kde section, not the specific application.

Examples:
non-kde-apps -- menu key doesn't work /amule/ or does but in an akward way /gimp/
kde-apps:
windows -- title bar, shows menu, but not the correct one
konqueror -- main page, doesn't work; location box -- works
kmail -- inbox -- works; mail preview -- doesn't work

It is really strange, because right-click always works.
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-24 19:19:00 UTC
Unfortunately, filing it for "kde" doesn't help fixing the problem.
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2006-03-24 19:38:51 UTC
> filing it for "kde" doesn't help fixing the problem. 

This doesn't help either, does it? Is it kdelibs, kwin, kde-something-else? I am just a KDE user, I don't know the internals of KDE.

Since context menu is global thing so it is apparently not a problem of a single application but KDE itself -- but I don't know which part. If I can help developers in any way, I will help, but please don't close the bug report because you want play cat&mouse. 
Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-25 14:48:25 UTC
You don't have to reopen to ask questions.

Please file a bug report for each application that fails to process correctly.
Comment 4 Maciej Pilichowski 2006-03-25 19:55:26 UTC
Apparently it is rather a bug inside KDE -- and more probably in kdelibs.

Maybe I just put here an explanation from private mail to Thiago:

"
Is it possible /optionally/ for KDE-app 
to ask KDE for higher-abstract layer of messages, something like 
report_context_menu_activation_instead_of_right_mouse_button

? I'm asking because lack of such function is indeed the source of 
such bugs -- RMB is handled correctly and menu-key not. With 
higher-level layer it wouldn't be possible -- RMB /if configured that 
way/ would be 100% equivalent to menu-key.
"

Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2006-04-02 18:58:17 UTC
Interestingly, I've found out that we *have* this functionality in kdelibs since 1999...
Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2011-07-25 17:47:44 UTC
See comment #3.