desktoptojson and kservice

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2014-02-21, 13:41:29, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> While there are shortcomings in QSettings for parsing random INI files, I
> don’t think any of these apply to the .desktop files we use. Would there be
> any objection / reason against dropping the use of KConfig in desktop and
> moving to QSettings, turning it into a Qt only application?

One limitation we hit recently in Akonadi server is that QSettings can not 
correclty deal with comma in strings.
Basically it interprets any value with a comma in it as a list instead of a 
string.

This generated a problem in Akonadi when Akonadi Control, which is "Qt-only" 
used QSettings to parse .desktop files of Akonadi agents.
Translators found out that if they had comma in the translation, then these 
strings would not show up in user interfaces anymore.

The Akonadi maintainer worked around it by joining QStringList on fields that 
are expected to be strings, but of course that is not always the same as the 
original string.

If we want to be able to parse .desktop files without KConfig, we need a 
desktop file parser.
The Razor-Qt and LxQt people might have one already.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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