KNotify startup

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 04:15:07 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 
> Lubos Lunak said:
> > On Wednesday 06 of June 2007, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> >> Le mercredi 6 juin 2007, Rafael Fernández López a écrit :
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I just wonder why knotify service is note started on the startkde
> >> script.
> >> > I think it would be really useful.
> >>
> >> The idea was to start knotify with the dbus daemon activation thing.
> >> But
> >> this doesn't work because this is broken by design. (It require to
> >> install
> >> a file in a place which is at least not possible in my installation)
> 
> The D-Bus daemon honours $XDG_DATA_DIRS. So, set it to include your KDE
> installation before you start the D-Bus daemon.
> 

We are doing that now in startkde.  You'll see dfaure and I added some
code to set XDG_DATA_DIRS immediately before qdbus starts.

> I have a proposal to enhance the D-Bus activation thing with
> desktop-specific configuration. But this won't help running KDE
> applications outside KDE.

Did that proposal get accepted and, if so, has it been implemented?
Maybe I'm using an old d-bus?  I have version 1.0.1
> 
> >> So yes, it should be probably started with startkde.
> >> But it still need to be started on demand anyway to work in non KDE
> >> environment.
> >
> >  In which case there's not much point in starting it in startkde, right :)
> > ?
> 
> startkde won't help, actually. This needs to be started even when run from
> outside a full KDE session.
> 

Unless you have a better idea, I think we currently have no choice but
to start knotify4 from startkde.  

Please let me know how to proceed.  I really would like to fix this.

-Allen