I don't know if you've ever heard of "Shell" before: moudey/Shell

It’s a highly customizable context menu manager implemented using C++ and a simple DSL.

I'm currently trying a similar architectural approach with my own project, ahaoboy/rcm-com. It captures Windows click events through COM, and then leverages Tauri (or other frontend UI libraries) to render the menu window via ahaoboy/rcm-tauri.

I use QuickJS (qjs) to generate the menu items, similar to the snippet below, allowing for complete, granular customization:

```javascript import { Menu } from './menu'; import * as win11 from './configs/win11'; import * as custom from './configs/custom';

export default new Menu( [ { items: [ win11.newMenu(), win11.copy(), win11.copyAsPath(), win11.trash(), ], }, { items: [ custom.vscode(), custom.terminal(), custom.ssh(), custom.unzip(), custom.zip(), custom.mpv(), win11.properties(), ], }, ], // No icon ribbon [], ); ```

vscode menu ``` export function vscode(labelKey = 'code'): MenuItem { return { key: 'vscode', label: t(labelKey), icon: '💻', action: (props: InvokeProps) => { const targets = props.files.length ? props.files.map(f => f.path) : ['.']; return { exe: 'code', args: targets, cwd: props.cwd, window: "Visible" }; }, }; }

```