Review Request 119038: Allow loading KCMs from QT_PLUGIN_PATH subdirectories

[David Faure]

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    technically this could lead to conflicts (if same filename in two different subdirs).
    
    Why not turn '/' into '_' ?
    
    Of course this raises the question of compatibility ... which makes me wonder who uses this dbus stuff in the first place. Any idea?


- David Faure


On June 30, 2014, 3:18 p.m., Alexander Richardson wrote:
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> (Updated June 30, 2014, 3:18 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcmutils
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> Description
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> Previously we would crash with an assertion inside libdbus-1 because of
> additional / characters in the dbus path if X-KDE-Library in the
> .desktop file pointed to a plugin inside a subdirectory of the plugin
> path. We now just use the name of the library and strip all leading
> directories from the name that is registered in DBus
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> This would allow moving all kcms into e.g. plugins/kcm5 which would allow
> cleaning up the plugins/ directory
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> Diffs
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>   src/kcmoduleproxy.cpp 7596f36e1e26ce080634f3cc0f89e27280423f25 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119038/diff/
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> Testing
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> - moved $KF5/lib64/plugins/kcm_clock.so to $KF5/lib64/plugins/kcm5/kcm_clock.so
> - changed X-KDE-Library to "kcm5/kcm_clock" in $KF5/share/kservice5/clock.desktop
> - ran kbuildsycoca5
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> "kcmshell5 clock" before this patch -> crash
> "kcmshell5 clock" after this patch -> works as expected
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> Thanks,
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> Alexander Richardson
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