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.

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.

> 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.

@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.

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> @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

this could only be an option for the bmodkey context ("alt") alongside an impl. for the titlebar useractions

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.

fixing summary to the possible

As we currently don't have any application menu support any more, I unfortunately have to set the bug to wontfix.