startkde script modification question

[Neil Stevens]

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On Wednesday January 15, 2003 01:47, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while working myself (again) through the gpg/aegypten/smime stuff for
> debian packages (which we at credativ where I work will use for an
> installation), the thing for using KMail with Aegypten  depends much on
> proper configuration of the system. Now; one critical thing is to make
> the gpg-agent start up, so
>
> http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
>
> advises to start it in ~/.xsession or in startkde. I'd prefer to have a
> test for gpg-agent in the PATH and start it properly as the example says
> during KDE startup if it is there:
>
> Before using gpg, you need to start gpg-agent:
>
> eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)"
>
>
> (gpg-agent outputs a little shell script that sets the environment
> variable GNUPG_AGENT_INFO). You may want to add this to your ~/.xsession
> or startkde so that all programs see the environment variable.
>
> My question is, could we implement this in the startkde script as a
> default test for KDE startup or do the packagers require to do that or
> leave this totally up to the user ? I think we could add this there to
> make sure kmail works with the plugins correctly, because many fails
> will be the result of not having everything properly configured and
> started up.

Implement it with KControl, like aRts does.  artsd is started with kcminit.

This way, you can have the gpg stuff GUI-configurable, instead of relying 
on shell scripts and environment variables alone for user control.

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