Omitting default actions if already provided · sindresorhus/electron-context-menu#70

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Description

I'm defining a custom "Copy" action, which does something a bit different than the default "Copy" action, to some buttons, but on right click the content of the button gets selected (and I can't make them unselectable) and so the menu displays 2 "Copy" actions, the one I defined and the one this library defines:

I think I could generate the whole menu manually via the menu option but that would mean detecting all the cases where the default actions should be showed.

Could we instead add an option, canOverrideDefaultActions or something, where before inserting each default action the library check if another action with the same label has been provided already?

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Tech stack: javascriptelectron
Domain: desktopfrontend
Issue type: feature
Difficulty: 3
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Activity status: stale
Clarity: clear
Prerequisites: JavaScriptElectron
Newbie friendliness: 70
Research direction: Investigate the source code (likely `index.js`) where default actions are defined and inserted into the context menu. Check for any existing mechanism to detect duplicate labels. The issue discussion may contain further suggestions from the maintainer. Consider adding an option like `canOverrideDefaultActions` that checks for existing custom actions with the same label before adding defaults.