Bug 317356

Summary: Please add the application menu as Options::MouseCommand
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Frank <francis.earl>
Component: appmenuAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: kwin-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.10.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Frank 2013-03-25 21:58:44 UTC
I would quite enjoy if, along with the current options, it were possible to have the appmenu triggered by right clicking on the application window.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2013-03-26 06:08:45 UTC
applications provide their own context menu. If we take the right click to show the appmenu, the application's context menu would be broken. We do not break functionality of applications - not even optional.
Comment 2 Frank 2013-03-26 07:06:46 UTC
There used to be a way to configure this, but it seems you're right the app automatically gets right click now.

Can this be done with a middle click?

I would really like something like what gimp and xchat do, but throughout the desktop.
Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2013-03-26 07:17:17 UTC
> Can this be done with a middle click?
no as middle click is used for selection copy'n'paste. And please don't ask for another mouse button. We don't steal mouse buttons.
Comment 4 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-03-26 08:45:44 UTC
@Martin Gräßlin: I think he want to be able to call application menu when right clicking on the title bar. As this is already configurable in kwin, should not be hard to add one more option.
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2013-03-26 09:08:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> @Martin Gräßlin: I think he want to be able to call application menu when
> right clicking on the title bar. As this is already configurable in kwin,
> should not be hard to add one more option.
if that's what is wanted, indeed that would not be difficult. But the wish clearly states application window
Comment 6 Thomas Lübking 2013-03-26 11:11:43 UTC
this could only be an option for the bmodkey context ("alt") alongside an impl. for the titlebar useractions
Comment 7 Frank 2013-03-26 15:32:40 UTC
Triggering on a user-selected mouse button in the titlebar would be fine as well.

For me, I feel like the application menu should be part of the application, but having such a small area to click in the current titlebar option is not ideal imo (at least small in the oxygen theme). I really think applications look a lot better without it in the app window itself as is default though.

I apologize though, as I said, in KDE 3.x it was possible to set what each mouse click did for your applications, thus the original wording of my request. I think it is good to add a little consistency, I was simply ignorant of these efforts.
Comment 8 Thomas Lübking 2013-03-26 20:21:03 UTC
fixing summary to the possible
Comment 9 Martin Flöser 2016-08-29 06:33:22 UTC
As we currently don't have any application menu support any more, I unfortunately have to set the bug to wontfix.