Support for tryExec in sidebar plugins

[David Faure]

On Monday 19 July 2004 20:33, Marcus Camen wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> AFAIK for kdm session files (like twm.desktop) we read the 'TryExec' key 
> in the .desktop file and check if the given executable is available or 
> not. The same applies for KService which is used by the Kontact plugin 
> system (e.g. David and Daniel committed a modified newsticker plugin 
> today).
> 
> The attached patch implements a similar functionality in 
> kdebase/konqueror/sidebar/sidebar_widget.cpp. It affects the 'Add New' 
> popup menu in a way that sidebar plugins which have (TryExec==foo && 
> executable foo does not exist) will not be shown. Therefore a user will 
> not be able to add non-functional plugins.

I like the idea but I think it should be implemented with KDesktopFile::tryExec()

(just instanciate a KDesktopFile instead of a KSimpleConfig)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).