diff --git a/src/widgets/dropjob.h b/src/widgets/dropjob.h
--- a/src/widgets/dropjob.h
+++ b/src/widgets/dropjob.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 
 class QAction;
 class QDropEvent;
+class QMenu;
 class KFileItemListProperties;
 
 namespace KIO
@@ -86,6 +87,16 @@
      */
     void popupMenuAboutToShow(const KFileItemListProperties &itemProps);
 
+    /**
+     * Signals that the popup menu is about to be shown.
+     * Applications can use the information provided about the dropped URLs
+     * (e.g. the mimetype) to decide whether to call setApplicationActions.
+     * @param itemProps properties of the dropped items
+     * @param menu the popup menu instance
+     * @since 5.32
+     */
+    void popupMenuAboutToShow(const KFileItemListProperties &itemProps, QMenu *menu);
+
 protected Q_SLOTS:
     void slotResult(KJob *job) Q_DECL_OVERRIDE;
 
diff --git a/src/widgets/dropjob.cpp b/src/widgets/dropjob.cpp
--- a/src/widgets/dropjob.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/dropjob.cpp
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@
     const KFileItemListProperties itemProps(fileItems);
 
     emit q->popupMenuAboutToShow(fileItems);
+    emit q->popupMenuAboutToShow(fileItems, popup);
 
     const bool sReading = itemProps.supportsReading();
     const bool sDeleting = itemProps.supportsDeleting();