On Wednesday 07 August 2019 06:35:34 pm William Morder via trinity-users
wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 August 2019 13:26:02 Michael wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the Right Click menu in Konqueror?
> >
> > Specifically I’m trying to get the first choice from “Open with” to be on
> > the right click main menu. Similar to when there is only one option to
> > open the file type with (without having to delete all the available
> > options but one).
> >
> > Before:
> >
> > Move to Trash
> > Delete
> > Open with =>
> > Preview with =>
> > Actions =>
> >
> > Afterwards:
> >
> > Move to Trash
> > Delete
> > Open with KWrite
> > Open with =>
> > Preview with =>
> > Actions =>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
> >
> > Ref:
> > Submenu “Open with”:
> >
> > KWrite
> > Kate
> > Kedit
> > Nano
> > ...
>
> We have covered this before somewhere in the list archives, maybe 6 months
> ago now, but I got it for you.
>
> 2 ways to modify the right-click menu.
>
> #1 is the quickie method: just right-click, look at the available options,
> but choose the bottom option, "Other ..."; and then add your own choice,
> which will then move to the top of your list of options.
>
> #2 takes longer, but allows more possibilities. Click on
> Konqueror / Settings / Configure Konqueror... / File Associations /
> <application or file types, etc.>/
>
> Now look at the right side, where one is given the full range of
> possibilities; including, of course, stuff you don't want.
>
> You can add or remove stuff from your right-click menu, change the order of
> choices in the menu, as well as change the icons for those choices, if you
> don't like the defaults; you can even create absurd options that will never
> work, like (for example) opening an Open Office document with a media
> player, or make it so a graphics file gets opened with a web browser.
>
> (You probably don't want to do these things, of course; but you *could*
> create such weird configurations in your menus, because nothing prevents
> it; which could conceivably bork up your otherwise well-behaved system.)
>
> Bill
Hi Bill,
After looking at what you wrote, I don't think it's currently possible. (I
wasn’t trying to move KWrite to the top of the “Open with” submenu, but was
wanting to add it to the main, right-click menu.)
Using your #2 I did actually solve what I was actually after. Having a double
click on a file open it in the external program (e.g. KWrite) instead of
opening it inside Konqueror (“Show file in embedded viewer”).
Arguably it’s still a pita digging through all the File Association types to
get them all to “Show file in separate viewer.”
Here’s the general method for any who want to wholesale turn off Konqueror’s
embedded view functioning. Using the first ‘application’ entries ‘annodex’
[1] and ‘asx’ as an example:
Warning: This will break any item that fully depends on the embedded viewer!
(Example: x-macpaint?, x-quicktime?)
> #2 takes longer, but allows more possibilities. Click on
> Konqueror / Settings / Configure Konqueror... / File Associations
- Click ‘application’
- - Click ‘Show file in separate viewer’
- Click ‘annodex’
- - Click ‘Embedding’ tab
- - Click “Use settings for ‘application’ group”
- Click ‘asx’
- - Click “Use settings for ‘application’ group”
{It’s radically faster to click a Known Type, then use the arrow keys and
ALT-N rather than mouse clicks.}
{It’s also a good time to make sure your favorite app is at the top of the
Application Preference Order.}
- Continue through every other ‘Known Types’ until finished...
- Click Apply
- Click OK
YMMV, Best,
Michael
[1]
I’m guessing this is a bug?
‘annodex’ is in both ‘application’ and ‘video’ and can be set separately in
each.
[2]
While we’re here, you can also set file associations by:
Konqueror / Right Click on file / Properties / Click {wrench icon} to the far
right of ‘Type:’
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