My work desktop is KDE3.5. On my home machine I just installed Kubuntu 8.10 which provides KDE4.1. To my dissapointment the custom menus seem to have vanished.

In KDE3.5 it is possible to associate custom menus with mouse buttons. I routinely have(had?) the left button with a list of machines that I can ssh/rlogin to and the right button with a few often used applications.

How I've looked, I can't find them anywhere. Have they gone definitely, or is there a way to associate mouse buttons with menus.

langenaam wrote:My work desktop is KDE3.5. On my home machine I just installed Kubuntu 8.10 which provides KDE4.1. To my dissapointment the custom menus seem to have vanished.

In KDE3.5 it is possible to associate custom menus with mouse buttons. I routinely have(had?) the left button with a list of machines that I can ssh/rlogin to and the right button with a few often used applications.

How I've looked, I can't find them anywhere. Have they gone definitely, or is there a way to associate mouse buttons with menus.

I feel your pain. I'm in the same situation. And I'm also willing to develop a fix for a few clues: 1) How is the current context menu constructed? Is it defined by a system file? Or is it built on the fly? 2) Can someone who has some experience with the KDE4 code base point to a file? module? package? sub-system? where the relevant code might be hacked.

Good luck to us.

-pmr

I have the same problem here. As noone else replied, maybe only some more information is missing.
In KDE3 the settings for custom menus on mouse buttons are located in
ControlCenter->Desktop->Behaviour
There is a box called "Mouse Button Actions"

I used it, to have the "Windows List Menu" on middle click and the "Application
Menu" on right click on the desktop. Doing so I was able to deactivate the
taskbar and removed the application menu from the panel and the panel can do
autohide immediatly.

I really would appreciate if someone developing KDE4 could comment on this
proposal.
I hope it is possible to again integrate that feature just as most of the other
nice things of KDE3 made it to 4.2

Assuming you are talking about the Desktop itself ( Plasma / KRunner / KWin ) it appears that Plasma does not yet support adding custom items to the context menus. The right click menus are controlled solely by the Containments.