[Bug 163582] New: Gnome Autostart Apps also start in KDE4 Session

[Johannes Tögel]

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           Summary: Gnome Autostart Apps also start in KDE4 Session
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: jtoegel42 gmail com


Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

While it's very good to have freedesktop.org standards implemented in KDE, certain types of standards cause problems and annoyance amongst users. 

This is the case for http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-0.5.html, which specifies where autostart applications should reside.

Both Gnome and KDE 4 have implemented it, which leads to the behaviour that applications that have been selected to start automatically in GNOME also start up in KDE 4, which is very annoying and doesn't allow specific settings for different Desktop Environments. Various Posts in different forums prove that this behaviour is certainly *not* what users want.

While the underlying problem (no DE specific profiles possible) has to be solved by updating the freedesktop.org standard, there should be the option to use a KDE specific autostart system such as the old /.kde/Autostart directory.