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Why aren't Services in contextual menu?
Authored by: sjonke on Jan 25, '02 01:25:41PM

Does anyone else find it irritatingly stupid that Services do not also appear in contextual menus? Services are usually taking an action upon something selected and it would be a lot more convenient, quick and intuitive if they were available in the context menus.



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Why aren't Services in contextual menu?
Authored by: sabi on Jan 25, '02 07:19:32PM

Please file a bug. I have, it's been marked as a duplicate so
obviously other people want this to happen too. But sometimes huge
numbers of duplicates can be convincing. :)

BTW, I just released a small program that lets you command-click
on URLs to launch them (like ICeTEe on Mac OS <X). Only works in
Cocoa apps, but it's free.

http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/



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How to get Services in contextual menus (in Cocoa apps at least)
Authored by: sabi on Jan 28, '02 05:01:33AM
So, after posting the previous comment I realized "hey! I wonder how hard it would be to modify ICeCoffEE to do this?" And it was pretty easy, about two hours of work discovering how things worked, making things too complicated for myself, and eventually I found a simple solution. Download ICeCoffEE here I'm planning on inlining the services in some future version (not this week though, I've spent far too much time on ICeCoffEE already!) Enjoy.

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Great addition
Authored by: nagani on Jan 28, '02 08:40:50AM

Thanks Nicholas, it works as advertized: Services in the contextual menus...



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