Context Menus

[TCMOREIRA]

I'd love for Kando to have support for Context Menus.

I'd love to be using the desktop and being able to press "right-click", and at any time a context-menu would show up, have it so that Kando shows up instead. It then presents me with all of the options that that context menu would normally have.
With the advantage, of course, of being able to easily customize our context menus, since they'd now be Kando menus.

Having Kando for context menus would help with the feeling of it being fully integrated and unified with the system.

Imagine how much more awesome and interactive "right-click" actions in the system would be!

[Schneegans]

Yeah, this would be cool indeed. However, there are a couple of issues which will make this very hard, most likely impossible:

• I am not aware of any API or way to intercept opening context menus. Kando will neither "know" when a context menu is opened nor what it contains. At some point, Kando will provide an interface to open custom menus via some inter-process communication, most likely web sockets. However, this would mean that you need to create a kind of plugin for your application to show a Kando-menu instead of an ordinary menu when opening a context window.
• Binding something to mouse buttons is difficult. As a global binding, it would prevent you from using this button for anything else. On some platforms (such as Linux with Wayland), binding something globally to mouse buttons is even impossible without admin permissions.

So I think - while being a cool idea - this is not going to happen at a system-global level. However, in the future we will have plugins for selected applications providing such functionality.

[TCMOREIRA]

Thank you so much for your answer! I'm eager for the future of Kando!
Having per-application plugins really does seem to be the most elegant solution.
I look forward for that!

I imagine, of course, this is probably of a low priority right now, but I'm okay with that! I'll be waiting!

On a side note:
I wasn't aware of how complicated Wayland could be until reading your comment, and then doing a little more reading on the subject.

Your goal of going multiplatform is amazing and ambitious, and I respect your courage! I wish you the best of luck!
I'm rooting for you! 🥰