How to add custom menu items in Dolphin (KDE Plasma)
You can easily create custom items for the contextual menu on Dolphin to execute scripts on files.
Create a .desktop file inside /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ (e.g.: copyTextContent.desktop) and add this content to the file:
[Desktop Entry]Type=ServiceX-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,<mimetype>: replace<mimetype>with the MIME types of the files in which you want the custom menu item appears. For example, for text files addtext/*. You can add several MIME types (separated by commas).-
Actions=<action name>: replace<action name>with a name for the desktop action (e.g.:Myaction) [Desktop Action <action name>]: after a blank line, add this and replace<action name>with your chosen desktop action name.Name=<item name>: replace<item name>with the name for the menu item.Exec=<command>: replace<command>with the command you want to execute. To refer to the file, add%Uas a command argument.Icon=<icon name>: you can optionally add an icon.
This is an example (copies the content of a text file to the clipboard, requires xclip):
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,text/*
Actions=Copytext
[Desktop Action Copytext]
Name=Copy Text Content
Exec=xclip -selection clipboard %U
Save the file and the menu item will appear inside Actions section in the contextual menu.
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