API review: KDBusApplicationStarter

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 23 May 2012 11:12:56 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 10.18.26, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 May 2012 01:29:52 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > On terça-feira, 22 de maio de 2012 23.03.22, David Faure wrote:
> > > > I'm about to write this class for libkdbus
> > > > (or possibly for Qt, if thiago thinks this could go into libQtDBus?),
> > > > to replace KToolInvocation::startService*.
> > > 
> > > Can't we use D-Bus service starting now? What is missing in the daemon?
> > 
> > The ability to locate /d/kde/inst/kde5/bin/kuiserver ?
> 
> D-Bus can find it if /d/kde/inst/kde5/share was on $XDG_DATA_DIRS at launch. 
(*)

Which is not the case when running a kde5 application in a kde4 desktop, as is 
my case right now.

[paths adjusted above to make the discussion clearer]

I see the point, that this is a developer-only problem, which can be solved by 
running a separate DBus session when doing such things, though....

Well, OK, I'll do a few tests with QDBusConnectionInterface::startService
(which requires ".service" files, right?), to check that it can work for us, 
including error handling.



(*) ... and /d/kde/inst/kde5/bin is in the $PATH, or the .service file has an 
absolute path, I presume...

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