Hi,

I'd like to create some service menus which are only visible under certain conditions.
For example the action "do foo" should only be available if there is a file call "bar" in the current directory.
I have already found some topics about creating context menus in dolphin.
But non of them can solve my particular problem.
Is this even possible in KDE?

I don't know but maybe the X-KDE options will help with this.
Can someone point me to a detailed documentation about all the available options.
So far I have seen the options: X-KDE-Submenu, X-KDE-Priority and X-KDE-AuthorizeAction
But I don't really know what X-KDE-Priority and X-KDE-AuthorizeAction are for.

cheers
dominik

X-KDE-Priority helps control the order of items. X-KDE-AuthorizeAction controls access to the item and is usually used by System Administrators to restrict and lock down KDE.

bcooksley thanks for your reply
can you point me to some documentation of X-KDE-AuthorizeAction maybe I can "abuse" it for my purpose!?

cheers
Dominik

These links should provide a good background and some helpful information:
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi ... troduction
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi ... Kiosk/Keys
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Admi ... /Resources

thank you for the links bcooksley
they were quite interesting but didn't help me with my original problem

is there really no way in KDE to create context/service menus like in windows or GNOME
I'd like to do something similar to the TortoiseHG and TortoiseSVN clients

domruf wrote:is there really no way in KDE to create context/service menus like in windows or GNOME
I'd like to do something similar to the TortoiseHG and TortoiseSVN clients

You could try to experiment with something like this:

ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory

in the .desktop file.

In this example, the servicemenu in question will only show up when you right-click
on a directory. I don't know if the example you gave in the original post is doable though.

OK I guess it is not possible then

But I wonder if there are any plans to support this in the future.
Since the other two big desktops (MS Windows and GNOME) support this I think KDE should also support it.

You could post it in the Brainstorm section.