Nature of a track

How to change the nature of a track in arrange? I mean changing a track from audio to instrument or midi or whatever. It was easy in pre L8 - just hold the trackname and a list appeared, now it doesn't and even more - in the inspector window the track type is grayed out.

Indeed it works, thanks. But only if you have your mouse configured to show the shortcut menu and I have it set to show the toolbox. There are two options when you rightclick on the track header - the one you mentioned as well as a second one 'configure track header'. The 'configure track header' menu item is also located in the view menu - why can't we find our topic menu item there, either?
I found a semi solution for this - in the environment: create an audio track (it automaticaly appears in the arrange) then change it to bus and voila!
So, to sum everything:
There are at least 2 ways to achieve track type change:
@@ one is to rightclick on a track and choose 'reasign track object' (this works if your mouse is set to open the shortcut menu, not the toolbox);
@@ second way: go to environment and click 'channel' in the inspector part of the window.
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