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Hello all,

I was watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gS9tjACwU which highlights some stuff that while obvious I hadn't given much thought about.
And I thought how efficient it would be if you could bind actions (for example: open dolphin, other application, do something else) to left-clicking somewhere on the empty desktop (not an icon obviously). Already single-right-click-mouse brings up a menu; we could also have:

single-left-click-mouse : opens an application/brings up a menu
double-left-click-mouse : opens an application/brings up a menu

and have a menu where the user can choose what each action (left-click/double-click) does, like which application or menu it will open.

That's pretty much it. Thanks for reading it!

JFYI:
You can already bind an action for single left-click on the desktop in the "Desktop Settings"->"Mouse Actions" (right-click on an empty space on the desktop or left-click on the desktop toolbox icon in the upper-left corner to reach them).

Although it is not possible to make it start a particular application, nor to use double-click...

Mouse/Containment action plugins

Plasma 4

Tutorial
- KDE Techbase - Plasma4 ContainmentAction: https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tu ... mentAction

KDE Store
- Favorites Launcher: https://store.kde.org/p/1081011/
- KDE desktop custom menu: https://store.kde.org/content/show.php/ ... ent=170062


Plasma 5

KDE Store
- Plasma custom desktop menu: https://store.kde.org/p/998904/
--> source: https://github.com/MatMoul/plasma-conta ... esktopmenu