KAutoStart

[Olivier Goffart]

Le Jeudi 2 Mars 2006 21:02, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> hi all...
[...]
> to ensure that the latter happens i suggested we provide a utility class
> that app developers can use easily to set autostart on/off. this has the
> happy side effect of future proofing how this is handled by apps in case
> the methods used to accomplish this change, such as the addition of a
> command line tool to add/remove autostart .desktop files for security
> reasons or if we move away from .desktop files for this (though that's
> unlikely?)

Great idea.

> attached is an API for such a class for review. if it is accepted i'd like
> to add this for KDE4 as one of the "KDE component" classes rather than add
> it to kdecore and then later move it.

I don't understand the example in the apidoc correctly. 
Isn't setAutoStart supposed to write the config in the desktop file (where the 
autostart flag is actually stored) ?   Why are we reading this flag from 
another config file ?


Just a small comment on the API:


        bool autoStarts(const QString& environment = QString(),
                        bool checkStartCondition = false,
                        bool checkTryExec = false);


I think that you should use QFlags instead of bool.

Related note:  shouldn't we decide about a convention for name of enums and 
QFlags typedef for options that are used just for one function.
like
enum functionnameOption {...};
Q_DECLAREFLAGS ( functionnameOption , functionnameOptions )  
and put that somewhere in a kde developper guidelines ?
(with all other still not wrote convention, like Private* const d)
I may start write a draft. Is there others things you think about ?

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